Fisheries committee  My understanding of the way that program operates is that it is intended to be capacity-neutral.

Fisheries committee  With that in mind, that would certainly be the position of DFO and the position of Canada in these negotiations that those kinds of programs, particularly where they are designed to be capacity-neutral, should not be part of the prohibitions that are described in this first-draft

Fisheries committee  I can offer a brief response from my part, and maybe just a follow-up to your earlier question as well. As I understand it, the way these negotiations have gone over the past five or six years, even before a chairs text was introduced, there has been a lot of debate about what

Fisheries committee  Good morning, everyone. My name is Gorazd Ruseski, and I'm the director of international fisheries policy at DFO. I'd like to offer a few brief remarks that build on the discussions at SCOFO last week. When the chair of these negotiations introduced his draft fisheries subsidie