Ms. Susanna Fuller at the Fisheries and Oceans Committee

I think you know that the COSEWIC assessments we do under the Species at Risk Act do have quite good terms of reference for indigenous knowledge. I think people are at least thinking within DFO about how to.... The CSAS, the Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat, should work on some terms of reference for incorporating indigenous knowledge, and to my mind there has been one in Nunatsiavut that has incorporated western science and Inuit knowledge on a par with each other. I think we need to do much more of this, and DFO needs to learn quickly how to integrate indigenous knowledge systems into that science advisory process.