Fisheries committee  The west coast.

Fisheries committee  Perhaps I'll be brief in my response. In terms of how much the salmon enhancement program will be receiving out of this initiative, we have just begun discussions with the Treasury Board Secretariat, which is responsible for overseeing the initiative. The proposals we have put f

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and Mr. Stoffer. I'll tackle a number of those and I may ask a couple of my colleagues. With regard to the harbours in Nunavut, I understand the pressures and the interest of the Nunavut government, but it is the first time that we would be building one h

Fisheries committee  There are four aspects to the program. The first is in the supplementary estimates under Aquaculture Innovation and Market Access Program. So its purpose is to support the development of the industry and new production techniques, to test measures designed to increase capacity or

Fisheries committee  We work very closely with a number of the organizations. I know we did have some discussions as to where this would be best located in terms of the event, and in the end, for a number of reasons, for a range of participants, it was felt that holding it in Vancouver was the most o

Fisheries committee  I will let my colleague answer that.

Fisheries committee  Perhaps, Mr. Chair, I could just begin before I ask Mr. Bevan to respond to your specific questions. We are and have been on the receiving end of a lot of the comments around buddying up and combining. There are views that are encouraging us to maintain our existing policy. As w

Fisheries committee  If I may, Minister, there is an increased interest, obviously, in making sure there are good baseline data. We have a very extensive program, as the minister said, in terms of aquaculture research and looking at the impact of aquaculture on wild stocks. For this particular year

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Minister. I think the study revealed that changing the single desk, because of the market and the way it was constructed, was probably not the most optimal way, but it did allow the FFMC and pointed out that a number of pilot projects could be tried with different org

Fisheries committee  It will be throughout the course of the year, depending on the availability of our provincial counterparts.

Fisheries committee  Specifically, I think there are a couple of provinces and territories who have written to the minister, always I think with the view of encouraging us to engage. I think it's opportune now to actually get all of them together rather than separately.

Official Languages committee  Mr. Chairman, to our knowledge, that complaint was filed with the Commissioner of Official Languages, not with the department.

Official Languages committee  We were informed of it. We were also told that the Commissioner's office was examining the document to determine how it was going to handle it.

Official Languages committee  According to the decision tree, in terms of delegation of authority, the Joint Coordination Centre calls the local police. Since the coordination centres are staffed by people from both the Coast Guard and the Canadian Forces, that depends on the person in the position at the tim

Official Languages committee  There are two aspects to that 5%. The first concerns the delivery of services, that is to say when people call a communications centre. The other concerns activity on a ship, to conduct a search and rescue or to provide some sort of support. I'm drawing the distinction between th