Fin Donnelly at the Fisheries and Oceans Committee

On June 14th, 2016. See this statement in context.

June 14th, 2016 / 4:50 p.m.

NDP

Fin Donnelly NDP Port Moody—Coquitlam, BC

Thanks, Mr. Chair.

I was just going to go back to Mr. Finnigan's question about GM salmon. Maybe Mr. Parsons....

The DFO officials weren't part of that recent announcement with Health Canada and CFIA, but we had a scientist at our committee recently who reported that GM salmon, if released into the wild, would be high risk.

Now, you've said that this would never happen, that the salmon that are raised in our hatcheries in Canada or our concrete facilities.... In terms of the transportation in trucks or anything else, can you 100% guarantee that these salmon would never get out into the wild?

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