Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. McIsaac. I'm sorry we have to rush off. It's just getting interesting, but we have a vote in four minutes, so we have to adjourn here. I want to thank everyone and wish everyone a great summer after we rise, hopefully this week. The meeting is adjourned.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Sopuck. I'm going to give Mr. Johns the chance for a question, or maybe two.

Fisheries committee  Thank you for that, Mr. McIsaac. We can probably do a round of three minutes. That will give us three minutes to get to the House, if everybody is in agreement and can get up all the stairs quickly enough. We'll go to Mr. Hardie for three minutes or less, and I'll be very strict on the time.

Fisheries committee  Mr. Sopuck, you have a question or two.

Fisheries committee  Yes. I wouldn't say no to you.

Fisheries committee  I know I did say some of them were at a conference. Others were also meeting with their U.S. counterparts, and unfortunately this was left to the last minute, I think. If we had more time, I think we would have postponed the meeting if the officials weren't available, but we couldn't do that today because we agreed we wouldn't have a meeting on Wednesday.

Fisheries committee  Mr. McIsaac, we finally have you online. We have the bells ringing for a vote, but we'd certainly like to have the opportunity to hear your opening statement. We'll see how much time we have left for some questioning after that. When you're ready, Mr. McIsaac, you go right ahead for seven minutes or less.

Fisheries committee  Thank you for that. Thank you, Mr. Morrissey. Thank you to our witnesses, both by teleconference and by video conference, for your participation here this afternoon. We greatly appreciate it. Committee members, I know the bells are ringing. I believe it's a 30-minute bell. We probably could disconnect or suspend for a minute and disconnect the video conference that we've got hooked up now and get ready for Mr.

Fisheries committee  All right. We'll suspend for a moment and allow the technicians to connect the new witness. Apparently we're having some technical difficulties in hooking up Mr. McIsaac from B.C. I know this is our last meeting until probably well into the fall, or it may be the winter before any Fisheries and Oceans committee meets again.

Fisheries committee  If I may respond, they were invited, but they're at a conference. They were unavailable today.

Fisheries committee  It's not that they refused to come. They are actually at a conference and couldn't attend.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Johns. Your time is well past. We'll now go back to the government side. Mr. Morrissey, go ahead for seven minutes or less, please.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Arnold. Mr. Johns, you have seven minutes or less, please.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Fraser. We'll now go to the Conservative side and to Mr. Arnold, for seven minutes or less.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Ms. Morton, for that. We'll now go into our question round. I know the time, but in looking at it, we only have one witness in the second hour. Probably what we'll do is a full round of seven minutes in this part of the session, and at the end of the second hour, we'll take a few minutes just to catch up on committee business.