Evidence of meeting #15 for Environment and Sustainable Development in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was sara.
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5:25 p.m.
Legal Counsel, Nunavut Wildlife Management Board
I didn't catch where that's being applied, but those aren't Nunavut's statistics you're giving me.
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Conservative
Scott Armstrong Conservative Cumberland—Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley, NS
No. The aboriginal funds for species at risk is specific money allocated and supported by the federal government. Do you think that's a good way to collaborate, a good way to partner with aboriginal groups to support species at risk?
5:25 p.m.
Legal Counsel, Nunavut Wildlife Management Board
I do think it is. I think you have to make aboriginal people more aware of it. You may have to look at increasing the budget for it. And I should also tell you that only about $550,000 of that per year goes to basically all of the west and NWT and Nunavut. So very little finds its way into the north.
That said, I don't think there has been really good communication, so there are not a lot of requests for that money, as well. But I think it is a very good program and ought to be enhanced.
5:30 p.m.
Conservative
Scott Armstrong Conservative Cumberland—Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley, NS
So the concept of the program is very effective; however, the application of funds and the distribution of the process needs a lot of work, and the communication around it.
5:30 p.m.
Conservative
5:30 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Bezan
Thank you.
As committee members know, this is our last panel on the SARA review we're studying. And today, at midnight, is also the last day for submissions by other groups interested in presenting to committee through written briefs. So we are shutting it down at midnight, and then we can start our work on the report.
I want to thank Mr. d'Eça, from the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, Dr. Quinney, from the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters, and Dr. Whoriskey, from the Atlantic Salmon Federation, for your briefs and comments, and for the different opinions we received today compared with those of some of the other experts we've had here. We appreciate that.
With that, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn.
5:30 p.m.
An hon. member
So moved.