Mr. Chair, the focus of that last question was really around whether the stock assessment funding was going to be restored. I did not hear a specific answer to that question, but I look forward to engaging with the minister in the future.
One of the things I hear when I talk to people in the Skeena watershed about wild salmon is that community consultation and community engagement by DFO are sorely lacking. The department's consultations focus on dealing with specific stakeholders and first nations, but as we know wild salmon affect all of our communities in the northwest. In some cases, NGOs are taking up this role, but it should be DFO's job to engage communities in these vital decisions.
Does the minister recognize that the current approach to public engagement is deficient? Will she commit to resourcing and carrying out broader community engagement in northwest B.C., particularly with upriver communities that depend on wild salmon?