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Fisheries committee  With just 30 seconds available now, I may need to give you a written answer to be thorough and precise. How could it plug it? If I may, Mr. Chair, I would like to respond in writing to that question to be appropriate.

June 16th, 2021Committee meeting

Claire Canet

Fisheries committee  If I may, I've lived in New Zealand for 14 years in the South Island. In 2000, there was the beginning of a process of granting greater access to fisheries to Maori groups, and rightly so. What I have seen, however, is that within 10 years is that all of the licences were then held through a Maori corporation, which was then bought at 50% by the Japanese.

June 16th, 2021Committee meeting

Claire Canet

Fisheries committee  Another avenue could be explored, that of giving the Department of Fisheries and Oceans an effective socio‑economic mandate by giving it the means to manage these aspects of the fishery. Since 1993, the DFO has had no real socio‑economic mandate. Yet inshore fishers are the largest employer in Canada's coastal regions.

June 16th, 2021Committee meeting

Claire Canet

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the question. At no time in the last few years have we been aware of any socio‑economic impact studies conducted by DFO on decisions they may have made, whether it be, for example, in the management of the right whale—where our regional county municipality (RCM) lost $9.5 million when the fishery was closed—or the exclusion of communal licences from owner‑operator protection, or even vertical integration agreements, such as the one with Clearwater.

June 16th, 2021Committee meeting

Claire Canet

Fisheries committee  A number of aspects actually seem unusual to us. The transfer of licences to first nations is one example. Another unusual aspect is the vertical consolidation of a number of the fisheries. As I explained in my testimony, many of the commercial communal licences are held by groups that are 50% shareholders in Clearwater.

June 16th, 2021Committee meeting

Claire Canet

Fisheries committee  From the Quebec point of view, there has been no information and no consultation at all about it. However, this is a deal that concerns first nations in other provinces—in British Columbia and Nova Scotia. Martin may be aware of consultations. I'm not aware of any.

June 16th, 2021Committee meeting

Claire Canet

Fisheries committee  If I may, it is difficult to speculate on the intentions of the government or of DFO. But certainly what we have been seeing on the ground and how the fisheries and the fishermen's organizations have been treated and the lack of socio-economic studies and socio-economic competence from DFO would tend to suggest that it would be a lot easier for them to deal with only one or two big corporations and get rid of inshore fishermen.

June 16th, 2021Committee meeting

Claire Canet

Fisheries committee  Yes, Mr. Chair.

June 16th, 2021Committee meeting

Claire Canet

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Distinguished members of the committee, thank you for hearing the testimony today from the Regroupement des pêcheurs professionnels du sud de la Gaspésie, which represents 148 lobster fishers. The coastal communities of the Gaspé depend heavily on the commercial fisheries, including the lobster fishery, for their economic well-being.

June 16th, 2021Committee meeting

Claire Canet

Fisheries committee  It's urgent and essential to develop a fair and equitable process that gives first nations, commercial fishers and the government the chance to sit down together to find acceptable solutions for everyone. The government's current fisheries management process is directly responsible for the tensions in southern Nova Scotia.

October 21st, 2020Committee meeting

Claire Canet

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much for your comments, Ms. Gill. Indeed, we are in a forum that is meant to be informative for everyone. We want to understand the situation that urgently brings us all together today at the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans. In the current situation, it is important that we move forward with an open mind, so that we can all search for solutions that are acceptable to all, taking into account the needs of each and every one of us.

October 21st, 2020Committee meeting

Claire Canet

Fisheries committee  Indeed, a number of licences were bought back by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and given to the three first nations that are present on the Gaspé Peninsula territory. These are commercial licences. You will have the details in our written presentations, which will be submitted to you tomorrow.

October 21st, 2020Committee meeting

Claire Canet

Fisheries committee  I'll continue the presentation, if you don't mind. I will now turn to the notion of moderate livelihood. In 1993, in a judgment of the British Columbia Court of Appeal in Van der Peet, Judge Taggart indicated that, in his view, regardless of its origins, the concept of "moderate livelihood" did not provide an appropriate or practical basis for determining the scope and nature of aboriginal rights or the extent of aboriginal priority for the exercise of those rights.

October 21st, 2020Committee meeting

Claire Canet

Fisheries committee  Mr. Cloutier will be speaking.

October 21st, 2020Committee meeting

Claire Canet