Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I probably I won't have time to dive into a number of these responses, but I'll try to get the questions out. Maybe we could carry this over into the next round.
Ms. Reid, you talked about marine survival, in that you're putting the department's attention there. Obviously, ocean conditions, climate change, and desertification affect food for salmon, and we know that other countries probably catch our salmon, but the issues that are on our continent and under our domestic control are habitat destruction, pollution, warming waters, and flow levels in the rivers and tributaries of the Fraser. There are specific recommendations from Cohen on those: recommendation 42 for habitat destruction, recommendation 53 for pollution, and recommendation 74 for warming waters.
I want to talk a bit about those. In terms of habitat destruction in the Fraser system, we know that roughly 75% of habitat in the estuaries has been destroyed or lost. Also, much of the lake habitat in the system has been affected. For instance, the Coquitlam River and the Coquitlam Lake have been cut off for 100 years with the dam.
Recommendation 42 talks about the recommendation being out of date. I think we've talked about this previously. Once the Fisheries Act is restored—and I know that's a leap the government has to take to do that—will these actions on the habitat policy come into effect?