Fisheries committee  Well, if you look at the treaty, article VIII says the commissioners are to determine the “form and proportion” of the budget from the two parties. In 1956, at the first meeting, the commissioners took that to heart and developed a formula to determine how the budget should be se

Fisheries committee  Well, the problems have been around for decades, and there's a long history of how the role has not really been understood by the department, I would argue, but in 2018 it reached the point where it really needed to be addressed. The U.S. was already indicating that it was no l

Fisheries committee  I think that's a question for DFO—what's happening in terms of invasive carp management in Canada. It's not our function. I would say there are missed opportunities, in terms of what's happening now, because of the distractions from this problem we're talking about. In the U.S.,

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Certainly, I would agree with Mr. Goodyear that a lot of effort has gone into the codification over the past couple of months. We have made good progress. “Future-proofing” is an interesting word to use. We got to this point because of a deep-seated cultur

Fisheries committee  If we were to go back to the last time Canada funded according to the formula, it would be the year 2000, so the cumulative deficit from that period to 2022, when it was funded, would be about $70 million.

Fisheries committee  No, sir.

Finance committee  Part of what we saw back in the early 1950s, when sea lamprey destroyed the top of the food chain, primarily lake trout, was that the fish on which the top predators feed grew out of control. They couldn't feed either, and the population just exploded. They started to die off. Th

Finance committee  Go ahead, Greg.

Finance committee  We do know that they are very prolific. If they're not treated, the population rebounds incredibly quickly. It takes about four or five years for larvae to mature into the adult phase where it goes out from the streams where they spawn, out into the lakes where they do their dama

Finance committee  In the 1980s, during a period of austerity we relaxed control, and we were proud at that point that we had held the population to about 90%, generally speaking, across the basin to what it was pre-control. We started to fall back really quickly well below the 70% range in just a

Finance committee  Okay.

Finance committee  Thank you for your question. Our ask is actually for $19.44 million. That would close the gap between what we need to deliver the programs that were designed to fulfill the mandate as outlined within the convention or the treaty under which we were formed. The $19.44 million wou

Finance committee  The impact is that the programs would have to be curtailed. I'll give a couple of examples of the devastation that would create. We would have to really cut back on the delivery of sea lamprey control in Canada. The other biggest impact is that the research that really drives fi

Environment committee  We did an assessment, the Government of Canada actually led an assessment, and the report was released in 2011 that demonstrated that Asian carp could have a pretty devastating impact on the Great Lakes. Simply put, we have to keep them out. Right now, there's a lot of debate g

Environment committee  Yes. It's a very good point that you make. Those are probably the three best examples of species that technically would be called invasive; however, we have found a balance with them in the ecosystem. They've become prized sport fisheries as well. We have other examples of introd