Agriculture committee  Well, we were just talking about the potential for farm escapees to breed with wild fish. I believe a study just came out that showed that it has happened now. I think in the industry they use broodstock from the Saint John River, and they've now found salmon in other rivers with

Agriculture committee  It is, in part. Aquaculture is an important industry, and should be an important industry, in Atlantic Canada. Our organization has certain recommendations about how it should be done. Taking it to the GM level opens up a Pandora's box for us. Given that all you need is one GM

Agriculture committee  It has implications on a number of levels. In the United States, this was approved for human consumption. I believe Senator Murkowski, who is a pretty fierce defender of the Alaskan salmon fishing industry, came out swinging and said that we have to hit the pause button because r

Agriculture committee  Certainly. Thank you very much for this opportunity to present and include the aquatic realm in your deliberations. We are in court on this topic this morning. As you said, I'm the policy director for the Ecology Action Centre. Prior to working at the Ecology Action Centre, I wo

Environment committee  The answer to the first question is yes. We were audited by the CRA. It began in I think the fall of 2011. Two years later, we successfully completed that audit. There are some I guess minor changes we have to make, particularly around tracking. We don't mind being audited. The

Environment committee  That's a big question, and I don't know if I can provide numbers off the top of my head. In terms of European settlements, Atlantic Canada is one of the earliest settled areas, and we've been fishing and farming and cutting down trees for a long time out here. We don't have a l

Environment committee  I'm familiar, but we're not part of them, because we have very little boreal in Nova Scotia. It's a similar model.

Environment committee  Generally, I think you're right. For many businesses, even if privately they'll say to you that they think something is deplorable, for them publicly to take on another sector and its practices is perhaps not a good business proposition. So yes, they tend to fund things that don'

Environment committee  Well, I think that for some of our natural resources work, government funding would be a conflict of interest, or the government is unlikely to fund some of that stuff, so we have to go elsewhere for that funding. Just to reiterate a theme that I know you're exploring, governme

Environment committee  I'm generally aware of it. We didn't have a direct engagement with it, but I know that it no longer exists, and it's a loss.

Environment committee  In preparation for this presentation we did ask for the PowerPoint that they provided us with, but unfortunately I wasn't able to get it in time. I hesitate to go to an area that I don't have a lot of depth in, other than being a premium holder. I do know that the increase in pre

Environment committee  The price point is definitely higher, and for two reasons: because we have a relatively small customer base, so we don't have the volume advantage yet, and because we want to provide the fishermen with more money, a more reasonable price for their fish. Although luckily, things h

Environment committee  There are two issues. There's the technology you use. A small guy can use destructive technology and a big guy can use sustainable technology, so it's not as simple as “small good, big bad”. Those two issues should be addressed, and we should deal with the issue of technology.

Environment committee  As Ms. Leslie knows, this is a question dear to my heart. Prior to working at the Ecology Action Centre, I worked in the commercial fishery for a number of years as a deckhand, so I've seen first-hand the effects of poor management, both on the environment and on people and the e

Environment committee  Right now, at least with Off the Hook, we're working with four fishermen in the Bay of Fundy. There should be thousands of fishermen in Atlantic Canada fishing groundfish . We can't do it four fishermen at a time. I think in part because of our work, and just the growing consumer