Good morning, everyone. Welcome to meeting number 97 of the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans. Pursuant to the order of reference of Monday, April 16, 2018, we are dealing with Bill C-68, an act to amend the Fisheries Act and other Acts in consequence.
Before we get started I would like to welcome today, from Burnaby South, Kennedy Stewart.
Mr. Stewart, welcome.
Elizabeth May, from Saanich—Gulf Islands, thank you for joining us this morning.
And we have Colin Fraser, from West Nova, so we have a whole bunch of new people here today.
We're going to get right into our testimony. We have, from Save Our BC Fisheries, Duncan Cameron, and also from Ecotrust Canada, Tasha Sutcliffe, for the first hour of testimony.
We're going to start with Mr. Cameron, for 10 minutes please, with his opening statement.