Madam Chair, do temporary, moderate-livelihood licences for lobster have a condition that requires them not to fish out of season?
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Business of Supply May 30th, 2022
Madam Chair, do temporary, moderate-livelihood licences for lobster have a condition that requires them not to fish out of season?
Business of Supply May 30th, 2022
Madam Chair, do temporary moderate licence-holders for lobster agree not to fish out of season?
Business of Supply May 30th, 2022
Madam Chair, the minister needs to get new lawyers, I believe.
The DFO human resources department has grown by 66% under this government, with 833 full-time equivalent employees alone. With not enough science on the fisheries side, why would DFO increase employees in the department by 66%?
Business of Supply May 30th, 2022
Madam Chair, there is no exception in the law in the section of the Fisheries Act. It does not say that indigenous agreements are not published; it says that all the agreements the government signs have to be published in the Canada Gazette. Why is the minister ignoring the law?
Business of Supply May 30th, 2022
Madam Chair, the government has not published in the Canada Gazette the three rights and reconciliation agreements, either before or after they were signed. The government has had three years to do this. The government refuses to release these agreements. Why is this minister ignoring the Fisheries Act and breaking the law? What are you hiding?
Business of Supply May 30th, 2022
Madam Chair, Bill C-68, a bill passed in the last Parliament, requires the government to publish any agreement in the Canada Gazette before it is signed. Are you aware of that?
Business of Supply May 30th, 2022
Madam Chair, do I get more time, since she wants clarification?
Business of Supply May 30th, 2022
Madam Chair, CMP does not enforce the law under this minister.
Bill C-68 in the last Parliament amended the Fisheries Act to say that all DFO agreements needed to be published in the Canada Gazette before they are signed. Is the minister aware of this?
Business of Supply May 30th, 2022
Madam Chair, why did DFO instruct CMP officials during the lobster crisis, and the year after, to not go on the water and just observe if they were enforcing the law?
Business of Supply May 30th, 2022
Madam Chair, former DFO and CMP officers testified at the House of Commons fisheries committee that 90% of the FSC fishery in southwest Nova Scotia is an illegal commercial fishery. Why does the minister continue to allow that to happen?