Fisheries committee  A hungry seal will go to the bottom of the sea and eat anything: lobster, crab, cod; it swallows whatever it can, if it can digest it. It's like someone who can eat fatty steak, but one day he'll get indigestion.

Fisheries committee  With regard to seals, I monitor this situation constantly. Some guys earn their living hunting seal. It's an animal, but what are you going to do, they have to hunt them to sell and eat. They eat seal; it's food. I was watching Le Téléjournal from Montreal and they were saying that seals have to be killed on Sable Island.

Fisheries committee  Yes. Let's say that, tomorrow morning, I lock you up in a cupboard and leave you there for a month. When I let you out and I give you an earth worm, you're going to eat it, aren't you?

Fisheries committee  Nod to say yes because I'm a bit peckish and I'm going to eat all the bait.

Fisheries committee  We no longer have any trust; we no longer know who to believe. Why are we here? Because there was no trust. No one trusts anyone anymore. We have to set the record straight. If I give you a glass of water, drink it, but don't put any vinegar in it. We have to trust each other in order for the resource to be good again.

Fisheries committee  The second question concerned the solution for protecting the resource. I can't help but laugh. I wonder why you found a solution for the aboriginals so that they could have crab. You freed up $500 million and bought licences for the aboriginal fishermen. I have nothing against that.

Fisheries committee  Good morning. I've been fishing for 34 years, as a crewman and an owner. I'm going to talk about the human aspect, since my fellow crew members have pretty much said what there was to say about politics, research and so on. I have four crew members on board, and they are all members of my family.