Clifford Small on Questions Passed as Orders for Return

With regard to Marine Protected Areas, National Marine Conservation Areas and any other form of ocean protected areas that are now fully protected or at some stage of planning and to be considered part of the 30% by 2030 that Canada agreed to protect in compliance with the 15th Conference of the Parties Biodiversity Convention: (a) what are the details of all existing maps which show ocean protected areas and the reason it became a protected area, including which activities are permitted and which are prohibited currently within each area; (b) what are the details of the maps of all ocean protected areas at all stages of the establishing process, identifying for each stage which stakeholders were consulted; (c) what are the details of all memorandums of understandings or similar types of agreements signed at any stage of the establishment process; (d) for each protected area shown on the maps, what feature, aspect or species will be protected and how will the success of the objective be measured for each area identified; (e) what is the budget to fully implement all areas that are currently under consideration for protection and to fully implement the 30X30 initiative; (f) which groups, organizations, stakeholders, municipalities, environmental non­governmental organizations or First Nations has the government received information about their advocacy for any ocean protected areas that are currently an Area of Interest, an area at any stage of the establishment process, or a fully established protected area, and what changes was each advocating for; (g) what will be the economic cost of stopping or curtailing renewable or non­renewable resource industries from operating in areas that are identified but not yet fully implemented protected areas; (h) what will be the economic benefits in new gross domestic product for areas adjacent to proposed new protected areas, broken down by individual area and amount benefited by region; (i) which of the protected areas will have full or partial Indigenous governance; (j) what is date by which each new area is to become a fully established protected area; and (k) which of the proposed and established protected areas will be approved for installation of offshore wind turbines?