Fisheries committee  I don't have an exhaustive list with me, but there are a dozen I could provide the committee with at some point where we are continuing to either do what we've done in response to the recommendation or modify our activities to better reflect the recommendations. We continue to sp

Fisheries committee  Good afternoon to everybody. Thank you again, Mr. Chairman, for inviting us to appear today to discuss the DFO's supplementary estimates. Almost everyone is pretty well known to the committee here, but I'll make introductions for the benefit of the few new members we have. We

Fisheries committee  In December.

Fisheries committee  We have been consulting non-stop since we tabled the list with the committee in November. As the minister said, we'd be happy to give you that. I think we could go further and lay out a prospective consultation schedule that would take us until, say, the end of the session, just

Fisheries committee  I can start off, Mr. MacAulay, and I'm sure the commissioner, who has a deeper history in this than I, will weigh in. In this case, the coast guard was in the process of looking at a whole stream of activities to effectively make their operations more efficient. The recommendat

Fisheries committee  So it originated in the coast guard and was accepted by the government. Yes.

Fisheries committee  I think you are correct in that. We propose; ministers decide.

Fisheries committee  We propose, and ministers decide.

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning. On behalf of my colleagues, I'd like to thank the committee for the invitation to appear today to discuss our department's supplementary estimates (C) for 2012-2013 and our main estimates for the fiscal year 2013-2014. As you noted, Mr. Chai