Sir, we had a little meeting with the Cheam Band--I'm separate from the issue associated with Frank--and the Cheam Band was quite concerned about the negative media they were getting as part of the Big Bar extraction. They were quite concerned about various issues--I'm talking about BCIT--and we were empathetic with the Cheam Band in regard to that because they were authorized by DFO to do this. The discussion came up about why this work was being done in pink salmon incubation years. We sat around the table with the Cheam Band executive and both BCIT and Cheam were scratching their heads. They were authorized. They were allowed to take the gravel out, so they were going to take it out, but they still couldn't figure out why DFO would authorize it on a pink salmon year either. So if it's done in the dry, that's one thing, but if there's impingement on the wetted perimeter, there's an impact.
Evidence of meeting #5 for Fisheries and Oceans in the 39th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was dfo.
