Fisheries committee  Just to clarify, Mark and I actually did co-author an article that ran nationally in the The Globe and Mail. We were very vocal about our concerns related to the Montreal sewage issue, and I'll let Mark speak to that in a moment. We don't want to comment on partisan politics or

Fisheries committee  I can't speak to which party made which decision—

Fisheries committee  Equivalency.

Fisheries committee  There are nine things the new Fisheries Act must do to make Canada healthy and prosperous. The first is to protect fish by protecting ecosystems. Some of the most devastating changes to the Fisheries Act were the cuts to habitat protection provisions previously found in section

Finance committee  I think there were a lot of questions that day, and maybe it was my own failing in conveying the seriousness and the importance of navigation, but unfortunately, the proposed amendments we see in Bill C-10 don't seem to take into consideration any of the concerns I was trying to

Finance committee  We are specifically concerned about four changes: the elimination of the environmental assessment trigger is one, exempting whole classes of waterways from scientific study or public review is another, exempting whole classes of projects as well as waterways is a third, and minim

Transport committee  Waterkeeper Alliance is based in the United States, but there are nine licensed members of Waterkeeper Alliance in Canada. Does that make sense?

Transport committee  I personally haven't taken a look at that legislation in detail. That's not the research I've been doing. We were consulted, and our president, Mark Mattson, is part of the Canadian Water Issues Council; they've been heavily involved in source water protection--keeping water in i

Transport committee  Typically we don't take positions on legislation. We wouldn't, generally, unless it's a particular area of expertise that we would want to bring to the attention of the public. And I certainly wouldn't want to say that I speak for the first nations community.

Transport committee  Thank you very much.

Transport committee  Yes. We were responding to the seven proposed changes. We went through each of the changes and gave you our comment on each one. That's with the exception of the wreck removal convention. We had no comment on that issue. Essentially this is what we did: we looked at the proposa

Transport committee  I think we would suggest that we have no major concerns with the act in its current form; that, in response to the seven proposals presented by the transport department, this is our commentary; and that the first three proposals could have impacts on the community.

Transport committee  No, I wouldn't say that's correct at all. First and foremost, the Navigable Waters Protection Act is there to recognize the right of every citizen to navigate and to access our public waterways. We looked at the seven proposed changes. If the department believes the current ran

Transport committee  I'm sorry, I missed the first part.

Transport committee  I think it's fair to say that we wouldn't have an opinion one way or the other on the Navigable Waters Protection Act, except for the fact that the committee itself is reviewing it, and we had some expertise and some information to offer to the committee at this time. We are not,