Fisheries committee  How many weeks?

Fisheries committee  A couple of them would have been working virtually 12 months of the year. Between 1995 and 2006 two of the plants would have been working virtually maybe 10 months of the year. In some cases they would have two and three shifts on and they'd be processing the pelts, as I said, m

Fisheries committee  Well, I know from the interest the Chinese have expressed to just me, through the sealers association, that they want the meat and the oil. I know that. I always say that politics is interfering with the flow of goods into the United States. The biggest market for seals up to 197

Fisheries committee  The Chinese groups I know who are interested in seals are looking at it as a holistic approach. It's not just the pelts, it's not just the oil, it's—

Fisheries committee  They're short of protein, that's exactly right, sir. What they're doing is looking at investing in processing plants here in Newfoundland and Labrador and doing the pelts, and the oil, and the meat, and the byproducts. They're looking at the whole thing and not just one part of

Fisheries committee  The hundredth anniversary of the disaster was in March. Both of them happened the same year. Pardon me?

Fisheries committee  The SS Newfoundland lost 74 or 75 people. They all froze to death on the ice. Then the SS Southern Cross, with I believe 154 aboard, sank. The word is that the pound boards in the vessel were not in good condition and may have shifted. She was fully loaded and on her way across

Fisheries committee  Yes, Madam.

Fisheries committee  The reason we supported the bill in principle is that when advocating for the sealing industry, it's not very often that we get people who are what we would call like-minded. MP Kerr had the interest to introduce the bill and to increase the distance, and it's a good point in are

Fisheries committee  I worked with the Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture in Newfoundland for 28 years. We were doing research. One of the things the government can do is put in some funding. From 1985 to 2001, we had cost-shared agreements. We used to do research on the meat to deodorize the me

Fisheries committee  To deal with it through the WTO will take forever. I met with Ed Fast and I met with Gerald Keddy, who's the parliamentary secretary. When they were talking about the free trade agreement with Europe, I asked him when he's going to deal with the sealing issue, and he said, “We're

Fisheries committee  I was talking to the gentleman over here. These animal rights groups have pocketfuls of money. Every time we get a market, they get inside information and they get in there and they press these governments. We had an agreement in principle with China, but it has never meant that

Fisheries committee  If you have any questions, my number is inside here on the back, right here, and our website.

Fisheries committee  Okay.

Fisheries committee  Absolutely. It's a critical part of what they're doing.