Fisheries committee  I've been with the corporation since late February 2016. However, in my previous roles as associate deputy minister of fisheries and before that, as assistant deputy minister, the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation was my file for a number of years.

Fisheries committee  That's a question that you would have to ask the Government of Canada.

Fisheries committee  That's correct.

Fisheries committee  Yes, it's in that range.

Fisheries committee  They would be the only place.... It's only 2% of our purchases. That's the only place where we would have a legal obligation to purchase the fish and the fishermen would have a legal obligation to sell it to the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation. Everywhere else is going to b

Fisheries committee  They make their own determination. I don't know if that's a motivator or whether they think the corporation could do better by them.

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  DFO doesn't manage Lake Winnipeg. It's the Province of Manitoba.

Fisheries committee  I'll turn to Stan for that.

Fisheries committee  I think that we have adapted to the absence of Saskatchewan; 95% of their fish are selling through us. It looks like most of the fishermen in Manitoba are as well. We've looked at new products, such as caviar. We've found a way to move whitefish more effectively. We've adapted t

Fisheries committee  That's correct.

Fisheries committee  That's the decision for them.

Fisheries committee  They didn't talk to us about that. There was no consultation with us. I think they were looking at moving to an open market. That would appear to be the rationale. Having said that and looking at the demographics of the people who are selling to us, I'd say that not a lot are go

Fisheries committee  That's correct. In the Northwest Territories, we still have an obligation to buy everything that was offered to us, and they have an obligation to sell everything. Everywhere else, that is a choice that the fishermen have to make on their own.

Fisheries committee  We have a VP now. We hired one.