Rick Perkins at the Fisheries and Oceans Committee

Conservative

Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS

Okay.

I'm sorry. I have limited time. I will follow up on that.

I will say Parliament allocates this money to the GLFC. It's not allocated to DFO. It allocates it to GLFC.

Can you tell me what statutory authority DFO has to usurp Parliament's votes on the budget to send this money to the Great Lakes commission?

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