Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. I know how short your time is and how important your time is. We'll try to keep to within the five minutes. I'm president of Lake Ontario Waterkeeper. We represent waterkeeper organizations from British Columbia right throu

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, members of the committee.

Finance committee  As we've suggested, if it were severed from the budget bill it would benefit all Canadians, and it would be in the public interest that we take the appropriate amount of time to hear from Canadians from coast to coast to ensure that this bill achieved what Mr. Osbaldeston would l

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Very briefly, like you, I've been an environmental lawyer for 20 years. I've worked at 50, 60, or 70 hearings. I've also done criminal, parole, and prison law, and immigration law. There's always work that goes with getting approvals. Mr. MacLaren coul

Finance committee  I wouldn't be here tonight and wouldn't have come up on such short notice if I didn't think that if the changes go ahead, they would take away something so valuable in Canada. What Mr. Amos says is 100% right. You know, when you change something with the Navigable Waters Protec

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Chairman Simms. I'm Mark Mattson, and I'll be starting. Again, I will split my time with Ms. Tully. Good afternoon, and sorry we couldn't be there with you today, but this seems to work fairly conveniently. People in Canada are more likely than any other nation to s

Fisheries committee  Those are our submissions, Chairman Simms. We'll wait around for questions at the end of the other submissions.

Fisheries committee  That's a good question, and it's one that I get, as I'm sure you do, often. Something we worked on in Moncton, the causeway back in 1968-1969, is one of the great examples we have of local knowledge and discussion about fish and fish habitat not being taken into consideration i

Fisheries committee  Sure. Just to be clear, Mr. Vice-Chair, the Moncton stuff occurred before the Fisheries Act, so it was afterwards, when the Fisheries Act was in place, that the meaning and force was given to it. It is about people. One of the great examples is the nuclear power plants. They d

Fisheries committee  Millions and millions and millions of fish are killed every year by those plants, and yes, the indigenous native fishery is fighting it up in Bruce County and here on Lake Ontario, where the fishery is destroyed already. For a couple of families down in Prince Edward Country, the

Fisheries committee  Why is that interesting?

Fisheries committee  I was just wondering why that was interesting.

Fisheries committee  Yes, Mr. Donnelly, we'll be submitting a written piece later, along with other waterkeepers, riverkeepers, and baykeepers in Canada. We'll try to do that jointly.

Fisheries committee  Just factually, there are only a few families with nets down in Prince Edward County and Wolfe Island, sort of where the river and the lake—

Fisheries committee  The American eel was big. They're no longer there in enough numbers to sustain a fishery. There's still perch, walleye, pike, catfish, and some carp. On the American side the fishery is completely closed, and for the rest of the Canadian side it's closed as well, which is a red f