Transport committee  Like my colleague here, I think I'd prefer to reflect on that, and certainly I would be happy to get back to you with any suggestions. I would say, going back to Mr. Hardie's statements earlier and those of the first questioner as well, it's interesting that there's nothing befor

Transport committee  The only other pertinent example that I could cite for you, and it is one that is.... Zip lines are an occasional thing that pop up. What we do find quite often on smaller waterways—and there are two or three that I passed driving between our head office in Peterborough and here—

Transport committee  In terms of the economic implications, I'll speak to our members' immediate concerns, which are hunting and fishing. Obviously, recreational fishing quite clearly requires waterways for the most part, unless you're shore fishing. There's also a huge number of duck hunters in this

Transport committee  For our part, I'm not aware of any litigation that has occurred because of that. I can't speak to that. I'm sorry.

Transport committee  What would be the one thing? Certainly restoration of the protection of the water bodies that were covered in the previous legislation would be a good step forward, but again I must stress, I know some of the motivation behind the changes, and have to concede that in some cases t

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Hardie, for the question. I'm not a legislator. It's easy for us to sit here and say that all of this stuff should be included, but it's not always necessarily the easiest thing to put into effect. I go back to the balancing issue again. I agree that without a do

Transport committee  We have not, but I think that's a very interesting suggestion. As a follow-up to the discussions here today, I will certainly go back to the office and talk to our fish and wildlife management team. We could probably come up with a list of waterways that we would suggest be added

Transport committee  Any follow-up comments will go to all members of the committee, quite clearly, through the clerk.

Transport committee  I'll be happy to do so. Thank you, Mr. Hardie, for your comments. I'll put aside the political gymnastics in my response. Look, there are always two sides to every equation, as there are in this case. Are we here suggesting that the entire NPA be thrown out? Absolutely not. T

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. Good morning, Mr. Chair. Good morning, members of the committee. On behalf of the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters, our 100,000 members and our 740 member clubs across Ontario, thank you for affording us the opportunity to appear before you today t

Foreign Affairs committee  In my context, yes.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes. With all due respect to the government in this matter, I think—and I hate to oversimplify anything because nothing in legislation is simple—adding a clause similar to the wording perhaps in the preamble of the ATT itself or whatever, but a clause directly in the legislation,

Foreign Affairs committee  Not entirely. I do agree, and here I'm parsing a fine line. There was a lot of discussion during debate, and I believe the phrase that was used was “backdoor registry”. Do we believe that this is a backdoor registry? No. What is absent to make it such is the wording that when

Foreign Affairs committee  That's correct, but there are also several warning shots in there that we have to be careful of.

Foreign Affairs committee  I'll speak to that if I may, Mr. Chair. I think you've just pointed out the very concern that we have. I'll grant you that if those are already in place, I understand your question, but the problem is that without exemptions in this piece of legislation, and the exemption we're