Fisheries committee  I don't know where to begin. Hydro-Québec I guess has done the most studies, so we have started with their reports. The outcome of some of these reports has been different from year to year. Sometimes they say it's the wave action that has caused the decline. Another time they

Fisheries committee  No. The wasting disease is a little micro-organism that's part of the natural environment. If you have too many of those, then the eelgrass dies. If you don't have too many, it's part of the natural system. It doesn't affect it. So by a process of elimination, those three, basi

Fisheries committee  First of all, I'd like to thank the committee for its patience. I believe we have a hard time explaining what the issue is, especially in layman's terms, to people who may not know or may not have the wherewithal as well, as is naturally expected. For the people, I think it's v

Fisheries committee  To answer your second question, the approach we've taken is to systematically eliminate some of these reasons or potential causes for why the eelgrass is disappearing. We have studied some literature by other people as well, not just this individual we're using. We wanted to tak

Fisheries committee  First of all, we've been focusing on the impacts of the hydroelectric development. When we started out, we wanted to see if we could re-establish the eelgrass beds. Our adviser told us that in order to be able to do that we had to find out why the eelgrass disappeared, because we

Fisheries committee  I'll let Mr. Penn answer the first part of that question.

Fisheries committee  I'll let Mr. Lameboy respond to that.

Fisheries committee  With regard to the rest of the answer, I believe that in 1975, between the Cree and the Inuit, the amount of waterfowl or migratory birds that were taken was something in the order of 120,000 birds. As far as the Cree are concerned, I think we are nowhere near that today, particu

Fisheries committee  Robert Kanatewat is a former chief. He was chief when the relocation took place and before that. He's also one of the signatories of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement. I'll let him answer part of that question, and I'll finish it for him.

Fisheries committee  We have not had one to date. We have a monitoring committee that basically deals with all kinds of other issues. But this is not one of the issues that have been identified as being important, as opposed to the exact location where the project is going to be.

Fisheries committee  I don't know.

Fisheries committee  When the review committee originally came to our community, we suggested that the monitoring be more than what they ordinarily provide. The purpose of monitoring, in our view, is to do something if it is discovered that something is not right or can potentially be negative in the

Fisheries committee  No. I'm talking about the developer, in this case Hydro-Québec.

Fisheries committee  Right now my relationship with Hydro-Quebec isn't that good because of the difference of opinion and approach on what I understand monitoring is supposed to achieve in this case and what they understand monitoring is supposed to achieve. It's my perception that they only want to

Fisheries committee  I wouldn't say it's too harsh a word, but I guess it depends upon your perspective. Mr. Tapiatic is part of that monitoring committee involved in direct discussions with Hydro-Québec, as well as the other communities. Maybe he can answer exactly what that committee does.