Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's great to be back. Mr. Sproul, as you know, in 1999 the Supreme Court clarified: The paramount regulatory objective is the conservation of the resource. This responsibility is placed squarely on the Minister and not on the aboriginal or non

Procedure and House Affairs committee  During the election, what was the range of coronavirus cases you had, and what was the average number of daily cases, for example, for Moncton, Saint John and Fredericton? Would you be willing to table that with the committee?

Fisheries committee   rights to fish or to earn a moderate living. The DFO interim policy response of the aboriginal fisheries strategy, the FSC licensing system and other access programs don't address the treaty-protected inherent rights of first nations. Is your government going to address the decades

Fisheries committee  We have heard about DFO obviously wanting to work more towards an aboriginal communal licence that could be made available, but that's inconsistent with the nature of their section 35 rights for the Sipekne'katik. What other viable option is available to the minister? We've

Fisheries committee  Thank you for sharing that story. The Mi'kmaq Rights Initiative is seeking consensus—that's my understanding—on the best ways to implement the aboriginal treaty rights for the Mi'kmaq. Can you talk about what progress has been made in the last 20 years? Do you believe

Fisheries committee  It certainly has not, Mr. Johns. What I would say—and I'd refer back to section 40—is that it's clearly not the responsibility of non-aboriginal people to manage the resource.

Lobster Fishery Dispute in Nova Scotia   to know they are protected. My colleague's government needs to provide that safety and security. It needs to go to the table with a meaningful mandate. I cited what a judge said in another aboriginal rights case. The government is going to the table knowingly empty-handed

Lobster Fishery Dispute in Nova Scotia  , knowingly empty-handed, to deal with it. Whether it be Marshall, Sparrow, Gladstone or Ahousaht, these court cases that protect treaty and aboriginal rights, the government constantly sends its negotiators to the table empty-handed. This is affirmed by Judge Garson. What we need

Lobster Fishery Dispute in Nova Scotia   the definition of a “moderate livelihood” with the Mi'kmaq people, a definition that was confirmed but not defined in the Marshall decision. It was not the first or only time the highest court in the land reaffirmed the constitutional rights of aboriginal people to catch and sell fish

Procedure and House Affairs committee  For example, for the queue voting, we talked about the option presented that it could be in the Sir John A. Macdonald Building. Has there been talk of having a camera in the queue, for example, for the public to see that process?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to address the point that Ms. Duncan brought up with respect to health. I think all of us clearly understand that we're in the middle of a public health crisis at this point. Our mandate from Parliament is to look at virtual sittings

Finance committee   ago as a spaceframe architecture company with projects throughout the world—Ontario Place Dome, the glass wall at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, the Melbourne Arts Centre Spire—Triodetic was invited 40 years ago by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, I want to say how much I appreciate Ms. Duncan saying how important it is to plan for a pandemic or other emergency. I really appreciate that comment. Thank you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee   going to go through what each province is doing, I think it needs to be more reflective of the current scenario. It doesn't take much, Madam Chair. It just takes a line to reflect that. I've gone through a whole list of the latest information. I've shared with Mr. Duncan our

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I beat him. I thought Mr. Duncan was going to jump in here.