Fisheries committee  Yes. They are insurable earnings.

Fisheries committee  It depends on the fishers. For owners, the answer is no; for employees, the fishermen's helpers who work on the boats, the answer is yes.

Fisheries committee  As I told you, there are harp seals and grey seals. If we deal with the problem of harp seals but leave the grey seals alone, we will never rebuild the fish stocks in the Gulf. So we must rule that out. It is not a solution. We are on the right track. Now we need to inform our f

Fisheries committee  I fully agree with the idea. The Seal Interpretation Centre works with what it has. It does not receive much government assistance. This is therefore a very good opportunity. The traveling exhibit has covered considerable ground within Quebec, but I do not know if it has gone els

Fisheries committee  We talked about dis-information and about information, Mr. Blais. We also said that the government had declared it was up to its embassies, which represent it, to get the information out. During our visit to Quebec City, at the Parliament, a representative of another country trie

Fisheries committee  As far as the protesters are concerned, during the last hunting season, last spring—in any case, charges will be laid—the officers responsible for overseeing the situation lost complete control of it. On the one hand, you have a person who is trying to do his job as a hunter, a j

Fisheries committee  Harp seals travel through the gulf. They cause a lot of damage and eat a lot of fish. You have to be aware that we cannot just deal with harp seals; we also have to deal with grey seals. There is market potential for harp seals, but also for grey seals. Grey seals stay within t

Fisheries committee  There is also the fact that the Canadian government is there to represent all Canadians. The threats from abroad to Canadian hunters are ridiculous. We are being labelled as barbarians. That is why we are calling on the government to act through its various departments. We have t

Fisheries committee  It really undermines the credibility of the department because, from what we have heard, it is as though we have carte blanche to kill. And yet we have specific regulations, the hunt is orderly and there is monitoring. To come back to those who want to abolish the hunt and the

Fisheries committee  My name is Jérémie Cyr, and I am a fisherman and a hunter. I thank you very much for coming to the Magdalen Islands and I welcome you to our beautiful islands, as the chairman said at the beginning. I will now speak to the recommendations we wanted to make. Given that the curre