Fisheries committee  Thanks for the question. I did indicate, I believe last time when we were here, that land claims includes treaties. I just want to give one clarification and then some comments on that. First, land claims includes modern treaties. I will use some examples that I walk through i

Fisheries committee  I'll start by saying that, generally, it was one of the purposes of the act and, as I've mentioned before, the amendments, to enable agreements with people who care about fisheries protection, who care about conservation, and who are working towards that. Certainly there are many

Fisheries committee  Yes. The answer is yes. A court could say “You have caused this damage, you must take specific action to fix it, and you have a $5,000 fine”. That fine is the moneys that would go to the environmental damages fund.

Fisheries committee  No. I believe the answer to that question is no, and that's partly why we have made it clear in the legislation that an authorization under the previous regime is an authorization under the new regime, but you have 90 days to apply in this case. Very much because of that sort of

Fisheries committee  It is the normal course, because some of these authorizations say you must make this sort of restitution, or compensation, or offsetting, and you must monitor how it's doing to make sure it's meeting its requirements every year, and you must send a report to the government every

Fisheries committee  Hydro power, electricity-generating facilities, those types, but anybody who is doing any kind of obstruction to fish passage, be it large or small, we're going to look at it if it's impacting the productivity of a fishery. Certainly those are some of the big players. The ones yo

Fisheries committee  I believe the section 43 regulations, the general regulations, would enable you to do that. I'll make sure that's the case: yes, it is.

Fisheries committee  Let me start with the first one. It is applied so that the difference between the old regime and the new regime.... The prohibition on killing of fish and other things is applied for commercial, recreational, and aboriginal fisheries—not elsewhere; commercial, recreational, and a

Fisheries committee  Yes, I mean, that's basically to.... I don't think there are any right now, as far as I know. However, there may be some, and we wanted to make sure that we're covered. The Fisheries Act doesn't get amended that often. If somebody comes up with something, we want to make sure w

Fisheries committee  We wanted to make sure we're covering nets, weirs, and whatever else we've written there, but we also wanted to say that for anything else you or anybody might dream up, in terms of something that will fish and cause obstructions, we wanted to make sure we were covering it.

Fisheries committee  No, it has changed since the twenties. You have modern dams and those types of things.

Fisheries committee  That's correct. We just needed to be able to say that if someone's going to string something across the river, and we'll say two-thirds is sufficiently far, whatever it is, if they're blocking fish passage, they can't do that.

Fisheries committee  Sure.

Fisheries committee  I don't think I can comment on what Justice Cohen has said. I don't think we can do that. We're still reviewing the very extensive document. We'll be doing that for a while. What I can say is that the Fisheries Act amendments do focus on the productivity of fisheries. They also

Fisheries committee  There are other major sections that are not yet in effect. As far as I know, we have not responded to those questions. As I said, that's a Governor in Council decision. Governor in Council decides when those sections come into effect. As I said, and I'll say again, what we're