Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  I'll be sure to do that.

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  No.

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  It's a century later and we're still waiting. Those spawning grounds don't exist anymore. They were completely wiped out. They were the principal spawning grounds for those fish in that lake.

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  When you say “the killing of fish”, you're referring to the definition of serious harm? I don't think you can possibly say beforehand in most instances what will or will not significantly harm a fishery. You can do things to assist an ecosystem that supports a fishery that absolu

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  Mr. Chair, I'm probably going to have to skip out now. I have a plane to catch.

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  I've certainly had that said to me directly, but not by members of this committee. What is very difficult to tease out of this is what other possible explanation there might be. I'll be honest, when I look at this presented in the manner in which it's been presented, with the con

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  Speaking from the perspective of someone who is in a fishery, no. There's an enormous amount that needs to be discussed about these issues, and much of it has actually been hanging about in the wings for quite a while. There's a lot of grist for the mill when it comes to revising

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  The short answer is no. Again, that's an answer given partially in ignorance. I don't know why this is being done the way it's being done. Maybe somebody has a reason for it, but we don't know what that is. I would say that the issue of excluding people, which I didn't get to in

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  Yes. You talk about the next generation of fish. The next generation of fish could very well be produced in areas that didn't have any fish a generation ago. There is an enormous amount in Ontario and elsewhere in this country of highly degraded, formerly productive fisheries hab

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  There are broad implications in a number of directions. There are broad implications to restricting the definition of habitat for fisheries that are largely a result of the fact that fish and fisheries are not things that we observe directly, which is why I think the people you s

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  Can I tell a short story? Years ago when acid rain was still on the front pages, a friend of mine was working in Sudbury, at the regional office of the Ministry of Natural Resources, and he went door to door talking to stakeholders about plans to reintroduce fish to dead lakes.

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  Thanks for the invitation to be here. I'm going to begin with a digression. Earlier in May I received a call to come to Ottawa to speak about Asian carp before the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans, on a date that fell in the middle of a week that my wife and I had boo

Fisheries committee  Yes, exactly.

Fisheries committee  With the caveat that I came here to speak about Asian carp and haven't done a whole lot of prep on the changes to the Fisheries Act, I may be in error in some of my comments if I go too deeply into this. I will say that, from what I have seen, there are changes in language that—

Fisheries committee  It is something that worries us. There are so many caveats I would have to append to any comment on this at this point. I don't have a detailed understanding of what's being proposed. I had one opportunity to read through a document that was provided to me on my way here on my B