Mr. Chair, we are suggesting to delete the definition of “ongoing activities” in the bill and change it to “eligible activities”. Essentially, the amendment gets rid of the one year prior and allows eligible activities to continue regardless of an arbitrary timeline.
We've heard testimony from a number of witnesses that one year was not enough. They would like to see up to five years. What we are suggesting is, if everybody's following along that clause 5 be amended by replacing line 26 on page 2 to line 3 on page 3 with the following:
eligible means, with respect to an activity in the area of the sea that is designated by an order made under subsection (2) as a marine protected area, that the activity has not been identified in the order as a prohibited activity.