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Fisheries committee  Yes, I understand where you're coming from. I guess on the other side of that, what right could allow you to demand a halt for a period of time until it's resolved, when it's going through a process? You know, is it a case of guilty until a verdict is rendered, or are you innocent until a verdict is rendered?

March 20th, 2007Committee meeting

Loyola Sullivan

Fisheries committee  Merci, Mr. Chair. Slide 4 of the deck presented to the committee outlines the aspects of my mandate that I alluded to in my opening. I can reiterate some of the key points. The areas would be to represent the ministers in pressing important issues internationally as a spokesperson for the ministers in international fisheries issues.

March 20th, 2007Committee meeting

Loyola Sullivan

Fisheries committee  On the cost factor at NAFO, for example--and I am sure Mr. Bevan would be more enlightened than me on that—I am familiar with the shares that are being paid now. In regard to how you arrive at that, I wouldn't be able to tell you historically how they would be arrived at. But I'm drawing a conclusion that they would be in line with, first of all, our quotas to a certain extent.

March 20th, 2007Committee meeting

Loyola Sullivan

Fisheries committee  First of all, I don't think there is anything there to indicate that fishing must halt immediately until it's dealt with. There's a period of time when they could be fishing, but—

March 20th, 2007Committee meeting

Loyola Sullivan

Fisheries committee  The sport fishing industry I think would be a domestic issue. It would only become international to the extent that there was an impact on a stock from others fishing within a certain RFMO. My understanding is that sport fishing--you can certainly enlighten me on this--would be certainly within our exclusive economic zone and solely within our jurisdiction.

March 20th, 2007Committee meeting

Loyola Sullivan

Fisheries committee  I wouldn't want to comment, other than just to make a general comment about our areas. There are significant areas within our exclusive economic zone where there are areas for protection. That's an issue I think would be more appropriately addressed within the department. But areas outside the economic zone—on the high seas, in other words—would be one where I have a direct role in dealing with other countries.

March 20th, 2007Committee meeting

Loyola Sullivan

Fisheries committee  First of all, Mr. Chair, I'm certainly prepared to deal with any type of issue that comes up during my mandate. With reference to B.C., I had an opportunity to have a meeting, at the request of the B.C. government, with their ADM and two of their other senior officials there to hear about their concerns.

March 20th, 2007Committee meeting

Loyola Sullivan

Fisheries committee  Well, overall, it depends on who your target audience is. If your target audience is the public, you would want to put your information out, get facts on the table and lay them out. If you're dealing with media, you want to ensure that they have all of the information needed to make an informed decision.

March 20th, 2007Committee meeting

Loyola Sullivan

Fisheries committee  Mr. Stoffer, just to clarify, the point I indicated earlier was not that we don't fish on the high seas, outside our 200 exclusion. I said Canada's fishing is limited in comparison to other countries depending on it. I think that was the reference there. I'm a strong believer in precaution in terms of quota-setting, the science, and the ecosystem debates approach, all of which are sensitive areas.

March 20th, 2007Committee meeting

Loyola Sullivan

Fisheries committee  Monsieur Blais, in that regard, right now the European community, the European Union, is looking at doing a particular in-depth, very comprehensive look at the seal hunt. They have rendered a verdict on the sustainability of that hunt; they've indicated the hunt is sustainable.

March 20th, 2007Committee meeting

Loyola Sullivan

Fisheries committee  I'll certainly answer. If you want more specifics from Mr. Bevan than I would have, I'll certainly defer to him. There is no doubt about it. I met with the EU ambassador on two occasions. I'm meeting with the Danish ambassador on areas of mutual interest to us overall in this area.

March 20th, 2007Committee meeting

Loyola Sullivan

Fisheries committee  I'll give my personal view of it. It's not necessarily that nations would have ambassadors in specific areas. For ambassadors to other countries, there have been various ambassadors in the past who were appointed for special purposes, and Canada had three previous ones. For other countries, to my knowledge, it's not a normal part to have an ambassador for a specific purpose.

March 20th, 2007Committee meeting

Loyola Sullivan

Fisheries committee  Probably five days after being appointed, I met with European journalists in St. John's to hear more on the seal hunt and to educate them. I spent an hour or an hour and a half answering questions from the European journalists, in order to penetrate the public of Europe in those regards.

March 20th, 2007Committee meeting

Loyola Sullivan

Fisheries committee  I don't get rattled.

March 20th, 2007Committee meeting

Loyola Sullivan

Fisheries committee  I alluded earlier to some specific areas that were part of the NAFO conservation and enforcement measures. Three of the ones I alluded to earlier came into effect on January 1. I guess the significant change to the convention that will be on the table in Montreal in April at a meeting for discussion is the objection procedure.

March 20th, 2007Committee meeting

Loyola Sullivan