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Fisheries committee Thank you, Minister. What I'd like to offer is that potentially the wording in that release, frankly, was not as respectful of the committee as it might have been. It should have probably said the committee “may” as opposed to “will”. My apologies, I take responsibility for that
November 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett
Fisheries committee If you don't mind, I'll follow up on that. It has been picked up on, but for sure we'll make that correction.
November 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett
Fisheries committee Thank you so much, Mr. Chair. Just to augment a little bit, the minister is quite right; there is a very active plan engaged, as you might imagine. I just want to let you know that earlier this week I had a call with all of my provincial and territorial deputy minister colleague
March 9th, 2017Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett
Fisheries committee Thank you, Mr. Chair, for inviting the department to appear before the committee today. I would like to introduce some of my colleagues who have joined me. They are Kevin Stringer, the associate deputy minister; Mario Pelletier, the deputy commissioner of operations for the Ca
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett
Fisheries committee Through you, Mr. Chair, thank you very much for the question. Resources, as you will know, are something that the commissioner pointed to in her concern about our capacity to deliver and ensure that we have a sustainable approach to fisheries going forward. It's difficult to pu
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett
Fisheries committee I must say that we're certainly following Newfoundland and Labrador very closely at the moment, given some of the developments and challenging shifts in some of the stocks. We may talk to you about some of the pieces. We have Jean and Marc here who can talk about the process. We
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett
Fisheries committee That was another very pointed recommendation the commissioner made. Actually, as we were reviewing all of the elements, the department pointed out the specific cases to the commissioner, because we were very aware of it. Kevin may want to talk a bit to you on it. What's so inter
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett
Fisheries committee Just to be clear, our plan is on the website. The actual IFMPs are still being developed. I don't know that you'll see all of them up there on the website. What we did, and wanted to have done by the end of last fiscal year, was to make sure that our plan, our approach, was up th
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett
Fisheries committee Okay.
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett
Fisheries committee We are looking carefully and hope that we will have a plan in place—
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett
Fisheries committee I would say that in 26 years an awful lot has changed. We've brought in our sustainable fisheries management practices and we've started to manage with the precautionary principle. There has been a lot of study and work done on the stock. While a formal plan, as I mentioned, isn'
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett
Fisheries committee I'm really delighted you asked that question. What's different? I'd like to tell you a little bit about the structure and what I've done as a manager coming in as deputy minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. There are lots of different models and lots of ways you can manage t
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett
Fisheries committee I'm very sensitive to the regions. It was a change I made, as someone coming into the office. I made the regional directors general report directly to the deputy minister. That's a structural change. For me, as I've said, it's a recognition that there are times when what we do at
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett
Fisheries committee You're welcome.
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett
Fisheries committee As you can imagine, we've been very focused on what the resource picture looks like. I have to say that we are still unpacking budget 2017, and I'm actually quite hopeful that we are going to get some resources and support that will come alive for us this fiscal year. We're very
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Catherine Blewett