Fisheries committee  Are you in a better position to answer?

Fisheries committee  I would give my understanding of it, but he has direct knowledge. Is that all right with you?

Fisheries committee  We depend on them a lot. It must be said that the International Joint Commission employs engineers and is trying to recruit an ecologist. However, members of the scientific advisory committee come from academia, from Environment Canada, from Fisheries and Oceans and Health Canada

Fisheries committee  I will not speak to the changes to the Fisheries Act, since I used to work with those people. My knowledge on internal changes must remain within the department. As for the commission, it will have to find that expertise elsewhere. It will have to find and pay consultants. We wi

Fisheries committee  I think one of the key roles that the IJC plays, just to familiarize you, because we have multi-facets—we're not Eve, but we are multi-faceted—is a facilitation role. As the chair was saying, we draw back on the science. So in that case, it was to try to dispel misunderstanding

Fisheries committee  Again, the way it's been explained to me is that you're able to have a series of ecological responses or barriers. They're much more flexible, so you can adjust. If you've built a physical barrier and there's a way around it, you end up having a canal being dug for other purposes

Fisheries committee  It's the IMO, the International Maritime Organization.

Fisheries committee  The intent is not for the IJC to get that money. This is, again, the government's investment. DFO has a dominant responsibility with respect to prevention and control. A lot of the scientists are with DFO, and the information we rely on is generated by DFO. It would be their cont

Fisheries committee  Again, as you pointed out, there are multiple initiatives they're involved with. This certainly would be their contribution, or it would allow their scientists to participate, to present the monitoring information, and so on, un apport that they would bring to us. It wouldn't be

Fisheries committee  No. Our position has been that an ecological barrier would be more useful, in that there are air bubbles and a number of things, like a series of electrical barriers. There have been a number of proposals that have been put forward, and that's one of the things that the Army Corp

Fisheries committee  Thank you, sir. As the chair mentioned, in addition to the 1909 treaty, the IJC has specific responsibilities under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. As I think you have probably heard from other witnesses, the agreement is being renewed in order to incorporate a more ec