I wish I can remember how many strategies we’ve actually compiled regarding the commercial fishery on Great Slave Lake, but it’s been a few. We’ve had even someone seconded; I believe Beatrice Lepine was seconded and even looked at creating it as a specially designated type of fish that was high quality and sustainable. I don’t know where all that work...That was a year or two of work. I don’t know where all that went.
Mr. Speaker, it’s difficult to explain why the Fishermen’s Federation has never wanted to break away from FFMC, but might I speculate and say it would be very hard to depart from the devil that they knew and bite the hand that fed them, because each year when it was time to start up their fishery, that’s where they went for the advance and the funding to go buy some new nets and a bit of credit to buy some gas. So they were beholden to them because they didn’t have any other option. We need a different marketing option which ensures the best prices for the best product to the end user and that could be achieved within the mandate of this
government. Is there anything you’re looking forward to in the strategy, Mr. Speaker, that would encompass that? Thank you.