Yes, certainly.
In the 2019 changes to the act, one of the requirements was to establish a registry. This is less on the fishing side and more on the habitat management side. All the authorizations issued by DFO should be posted on that registry. To date, five years later, all that is posted is the names of those authorizations. We still can't obtain the authorizations themselves.
I'm still waiting, since 2021, on the offsetting plans for the set of authorizations issued in 2020, the first year of the new act. Despite legally mandated transparency on the authorizations and other parts of the act, the department is not implementing that. Five years later, that's not happening.
Transparency on the decision and the rationale for those authorizations and other Fisheries Act decisions would be very helpful to have as well, but I don't believe that's legally mandated.