Rick Perkins at the Fisheries and Oceans Committee

On October 23rd, 2024. See this statement in context.

October 23rd, 2024 / 6:20 p.m.

Conservative

Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS

Thank you.

This is for Mr. Burns or whoever is appropriate.

In 2022, the B.C. Supreme Court in the Mowi aquaculture case ruled that the minister could not make decisions that didn't come up as one of the policy recommendations from the department. Did the department comply, or did the minister comply, with that court ruling in making the elver fishery decision that she made recently? In other words, did the department recommend this as one of the options?

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