Evidence of meeting #46 for Fisheries and Oceans in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was prevention.
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Acting Regional Director General, Central and Arctic Region, Department of Fisheries and Oceans
That would be correct.
Conservative
Stephen Woodworth Conservative Kitchener Centre, ON
In addition, clearly the Government of Ontario has some significant interest in this, so I'm assuming there is someone or some department of the Government of Ontario that has a similar lead.
Who or what would that be?
October 16th, 2012 / 10:45 a.m.
Acting Regional Director General, Central and Arctic Region, Department of Fisheries and Oceans
From the Ontario government side, the majority of our work is done through the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. We're looking at it from a fisheries perspective, and they manage the fishery.
To add to that, we've talked about the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, which relates to the Canada-U.S. interface. There's an umbrella domestic aspect of that which we're currently negotiating, which is called the Canada-Ontario agreement. That sets up the governance and the mechanisms for how Canada and Ontario will work in partnership to address the aspects of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.
Conservative
Stephen Woodworth Conservative Kitchener Centre, ON
That's actually where I was going, but I'm out of time.
Thank you.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Rodney Weston
Thank you very much, Mr. Woodworth.
I'd like to thank our witnesses on behalf of the entire committee. We appreciate your taking the time today to meet with us and answer our many questions.
There being no further business, the committee is adjourned.