Fisheries committee  Thank you. We've circulated a short deck, a presentation that I'll refer to. If you wish to follow along, I'm going to begin on slide 3. Most of you will recall that we were here about two and a half or three weeks ago on our supplementary estimates (C) from the previous suppl

Fisheries committee  The way that our business model works, there are a few things that we do that actually generate income, and one of these is selling hydrographic charts for marine activities, boating charts, and the technology for others to sell those through royalty regimes. Each year at this ti

Fisheries committee  Correct. Jeffery will speak to that item, but that basically was some of what I was saying. We may or may not get fully refunded. In many cases we won't.

Fisheries committee  That's an excellent question. Normally you would want to have some accountability at the end of the journey, and we're two and a half weeks from the end of the journey this particular year. I can tell you, without a doubt, if we hadn't received that investment, we would have ha

Fisheries committee  I'll turn it over to my colleague, but I'll just give you the general idea. The staging of when we get paid and whether we get paid typically doesn't happen in the same fiscal year as the event occurs. The issue is whether we will get paid enough and whether we will recover the

Fisheries committee  I can give a bit of an added flavour to that. Basically, this is the beginning of a four-to-five-year journey we're on now to start to move the market access for the indigenous seal products overseas. It very likely is the relationship piece that you're relating it to, so we'll l

Fisheries committee  No, I wouldn't relate it to increased investment and enforcement. It's hard to tell from these types of graphs, but this is all project-specific capital investment. It's primarily in vessels and infrastructure renewal. Mr. Chair, if I could, I have an answer to the question t

Fisheries committee  I was able to get my hands on an answer to the question asked of me by a committee member with regard to cases. I can tell you that the seven most recent settlements the department has agreed to have ranged between $2.5 million and $2.9 million on average.

Fisheries committee  The approval for the funding was multi-agency for the security of those games. The way that model was set up right from the get-go was that there was a lead agency. If there was a need at any point during the process of that overall program rollout for a reallocation amongst thos

Fisheries committee  You wouldn't see it in the supplementary estimates (C). We can certainly go into that lane, and I'll give warm-up time, if Mr. Stringer should need it. Basically what will happen is that when we're before you again—I think sometime in the near term we're coming to meet with you

Fisheries committee  Certainly I can't go into the actual cases, but we're not a department that is not before the courts on incidents. The decisions we take can sometimes be contested, and as well, like the RCMP, for example, sometimes in doing our job we can break a pair of glasses. Things happen w

Fisheries committee  It really varies.

Fisheries committee  The largest that has happened in the past? I honestly don't know the answer to that question. It could be in the low hundreds of thousands or it could be in the millions.

Fisheries committee  I don't have it off the top of my head, but I'd be happy to come back to the committee, if you'd like.

Fisheries committee  That's the sum total, as outlined in the actual estimates. The way it works is that we will often run our programs based on what will become the need during the year. The money is given to us for that intended purpose as an operating dollar in our vote 1, but we will then set up