Thank you to our panel for being here today on our first day of the review of the Canada Fisheries Act.
Mr. Favaro, you co-authored a research paper in 2015 stating that there were alterations to habitat protection, historically afforded under the Canada Fisheries Act, and there was a lack of federal leadership on marine species at risk. Could you explain how the changes to the Fisheries Act in 2012 required the splitting of fish into valued, fishery-related, and non-valued categories as indicated in your 2015 paper?