Rick Perkins

[Business of Supply, May 30th, 2022]

Madam Chair, it was the lobster fishery in southwest Nova Scotia. They were fishing out of season in the summer. Will that happen again this summer?

[Business of Supply, May 30th, 2022]

Madam Chair, Marshall I states that the indigenous right to participate in the unregulated fishery of 1761 is a right to participate in the regulated fishery of today. Why, then, for at least the last three years, has the DFO allowed out-of-season lobster fishing in southwest Nova Scotia?

[Business of Supply, May 30th, 2022]

Madam Chair, if so, then the minister knows that as it says in the government's mandate letters, this is the most important relationship. Can the minister tell the House whether the Marshall decision applies to Canada or just to Atlantic Canada?

[Business of Supply, May 30th, 2022]

Madam Chair, has the minister read the Supreme Court's Donald Marshall decisions I and II?

[Business of Supply, May 30th, 2022]

Madam Chair, I would like to ask the minister when this decision will be made with regard to herring quota, since the season is about to start.

[Business of Supply, May 30th, 2022]

Madam Chair, when will this announcement be made, since the season is about to start?

[Business of Supply, May 30th, 2022]

Madam Chair, when will this announcement be made? The season is about to start.

[Business of Supply, May 30th, 2022]

Madam Chair, 80% without a plan is not a strong performance.

Is the minister going to cut the southwest Nova Scotia herring quota by 63%?

[Business of Supply, May 30th, 2022]

Madam Chair, under the current government, the science budget for the fisheries side of DFO, which is the side that deals with stock management, has declined by 3%, while the environmental ocean side has seen its science budget increase by 65%

Is this why 80% of stocks in the critical zone do not have a recovery plan?

[Business of Supply, May 30th, 2022]

You are responsible for the department, not previous governments, minister—