Rick Perkins at the Fisheries and Oceans Committee

On June 12th, 2023. See this statement in context.

June 12th, 2023 / 11:45 a.m.

Conservative

Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS

I'll hand it over to Mr. Epp. I just have one question, and we don't often get a Global Affairs official before this committee.

Recently Global Affairs and DFO shut down Bait Masters' use of seal products as alternative lobster bait, while the U.S. is culling 9,000 sea lions in the Columbia River.

I just want to know why we would cave so quickly when the U.S. is actually more aggressive in dealing with their issues around seals and pinnipeds than we are.

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