Fisheries committee  We can supply the names, but the consultation letter didn't deal specifically with fisheries; it dealt with all of the rules issues. But we can give you the mailing list of the associations that it went out to. On review, there were only a handful of fisheries-related organizatio

Fisheries committee  We would be working to make sure it isn't; rationalization is something that's needed in the fisheries sector around the world, and something that all countries recognize has to happen.

Fisheries committee  Thank you.

Fisheries committee  No, sir. As I've stated, it is Canada's position that income support, or all social safety net programs, do not properly belong within the mandate of this negotiation.

Fisheries committee  That's right. There are a number of--

Fisheries committee  Our first round of consultations on anything is always done interdepartmentally in the federal government. We go to provincial and territorial governments and industry associations. We don't go out to individuals. On the DFAIT website have a negotiations web page that is availa

Fisheries committee  We consult with DFO on aboriginal programs and the provinces.

Fisheries committee  There are internal discussions in the federal government and with provincial and territorial governments.

Fisheries committee  We consult with the people who have the programs that could be at risk.

Fisheries committee  I would have to check to see whether they were. I don't recall that. It could have been in the early days. I'm not sure whether unions in particular were consulted. I have a list of some 300 names of associations, etc., that were consulted on these rules of negotiation.

Fisheries committee  Sure. It's a mailing list.

Fisheries committee  First of all, yes, there are some parts of this text that we do not like, in the fisheries subsidy section and in the anti-dumping and the trade subsidies. There are some parts in all of these texts that we don't like. There are many parts that we do like, including in the fisher

Fisheries committee  I'll answer the first part of that. There are a number of subsidy categories in the “red box”, as some people call it. It's our job to negotiate things out of that, and/or to put things into the green box. Is it easy? No, but that's what our job is. And Canada is not alone. We'

Fisheries committee  The Government of Canada's position has been developed—and this goes a little bit to Mr. Stoffer's question, I guess—by interdepartmental committees, which have discussed all of the proposals that have come out over the last six years regarding the chair's text, and we do not fee

Fisheries committee  Article 8 deals with additional provisions to the dispute settlement understanding that came out of GATT in 1994.