Fisheries committee  I must say that, as a citizen and not as a fisheries officer, I get informed and I go to their site. We can see where they are coming from. There are different types of activists, going from the least to the most hardly militant, as our photos demonstrate. Indeed, their goal is t

Fisheries committee  Oh yes. I sure do.

Fisheries committee  No, I did not mean that it was good for industry. My apologies if what I said was interpreted that way, but that's not it. I wanted to establish a distinction between two...

Fisheries committee  No, I didn't say it was good. I didn't mean to say that it's good for the industry.

Fisheries committee  Some clarification is needed. The pictures submitted today are from cases involving the Farley Mowat.. These people did not have observer permits and were not even supposed to be within 10 metres of these places. There is a difference here. If you wish, we can speak to these pho

Fisheries committee  On picture 7—I believe this is the one you are referring to—what you see is not a harpoon but rather a water cannon. The effect, however, is exactly the same. In the series of photos you see, the Farley Mowat is going directly for the fishing vessel from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia,

Fisheries committee  We have staff in Quebec that cover the seal hunt. You no doubt already know that the Gulf of St. Lawrence becomes a hunter's playground during the seal hunting season. If the seals move north to the Magdalen Islands, sealers from Newfoundland, Quebec, Prince Edward Island and th

Fisheries committee  We generally have more contact with people who hunt for recreational purposes rather than for commercial purposes. People travel and we have contact with them. These are not the types of hunters observers want to meet. What observers want to see is the bulk of the commercial hun

Fisheries committee  I just want to specify that the number of observation licences is limited. People who request a licence are interviewed. Their background or police record is checked. Nevertheless, the number of people selected each day who have a licence is limited. The goal is to avoid having a

Fisheries committee  We have a Type 1200 icebreaker, which is usually reserved for monitoring the seal hunt. It is a large vessel. On board, it has a team made up of six to ten fisheries officers and a supervisor. A helicopter is permanently based on it, whereas one or two others are ground-based. I