Fisheries committee  I worked with a coordinator who is the assistant director of our natural resources department. You know, on this issue and notion of consultation, first of all, as aboriginal people, as Mi’gmaq people, we don't have the same notion of consultation, I think, as the federal government or provincial governments.

Fisheries committee  I am not a technical person who has much to do with the actual scientific work of managing snow crab. I would have to defer your question to other people who are not here today. It's a good question.

Fisheries committee  As I said before, we will consult with our people. We do have some scientific research in our own communities. We're going to be working with other Mi'gmaq nations, and we have already started doing so. We are basically going to have a framework that is in total contrast to the decision-making framework you have now.

Fisheries committee  Good morning, parliamentarians. My name is Jeff Basque, and I am a senior negotiator for the Listuguj Mi’gmaq government, directed to the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans by Chief Allison Metallic to comment on your order of the day, that is, on the snow crab industry in Atlantic Canada and Quebec.