I would say they are definitely not the proper authority to be making decisions on behalf of what's good for fish. Their business line is the export and import of goods. The calling, above anything else, is to make a profit, even though it's a federal agency. That's the same with private industry. Business only exists to make money. That's their primary objective. If they don't make money, they don't exist any longer. How can those agencies put fish high on their agenda when their agenda has many other callings?
We have a fishery agency. They have the expertise. Now we have the Vancouver Port Authority hiring fisheries biologists and duplicating what another federal agency is doing, but their goal is not to conserve and protect habitat. Their goal is to develop maximum port development. I would say I can't see how any government could have allowed that conflict of interest to occur. I guess it would apply to all 17 federal harbour authorities in Canada, it's just that in British Columbia, the Prince Rupert one and the Vancouver one create the largest environmental conflicts right now, with probably about 10 projects proposed. In the Fraser River estuary, Environment Canada and DFO have largely disappeared, and the Prince Rupert Port Authority is determining what's adequate for habitat compensation, where it could be built.
How did we ever get in that mess? It's truly putting the wolf in charge of the sheep. There's something really wrong there.