Fisheries committee  In terms of all the slides, figures 1, 2, and 3 are based on annual reports issued by DFO, so they apply across the board and they go back to 2001, 2002. For the information on slide 9, what I had to do—because again, there is no registry right now for Fisheries Act authorization

Fisheries committee  I'll back up just to say that, specifically, with that kind of quote there was a story in theVancouver Sun, published around 2014, by Larry Pynn. He had interviewed some people and the chair of the Fraser Valley Watersheds who suggested that was what he was seeing on the landscap

Fisheries committee  I go back a bit to what Dr. Favaro has said. It's hard to know how the minister interprets that. Certainly, the public interest of the concept is very common in Canadian law generally; and at both the federal and provincial levels it's a concept in national security, in environme

Fisheries committee  Personally I think it's reasonable to expect reasonably consistent application of the act. At the end of the day, what that comes down to, of course, is that we are a confederation, and in its wisdom or otherwise, Parliament decided that fisheries would be subject to national par

Fisheries committee  A combination of both.

Fisheries committee  Again, that's just my opinion, and I should say, a lot of these figures come from annual reports that DFO issues every year, pursuant to section 42 of the Fisheries Act. They have all of the information stats on referrals, on authorizations, referrals by region, referrals by work

Fisheries committee  It's based on the empirical evidence. If we look at what was happening—I'll refer the committee to slide 5, figure 1—by the time we're into 2010-11 we've seen a reduction in referrals to DFO from almost 14,000 to fewer than 8,000, and the number of authorizations at that time dec

Fisheries committee  No, but I want to clarify there. The changes were introduced in 2012, but of course, they were not brought into force until late November 2013 and since that time, no, I'm not aware of a single charge being laid under the act.

Fisheries committee  I'm sorry, I don't understand how, based on what I'm suggesting, the city of Calgary wouldn't exist.

Fisheries committee  That's not at all anything I've suggested, in any of my materials.

Fisheries committee  Not at all.

Fisheries committee  Not at all. I will point out that while the Bow is indeed a healthy trout river, there are other streams and other watersheds, like the Ghost watershed and other ones in the Castle region, where we have endangered cutthroat trout.

Fisheries committee  They are being listed now. Those are the results of habitat fragmentation as a result of various activities, including recreational off-road activity, forestry, and mining in the Ghost watershed.

Fisheries committee  I should clarify that I'm not a doctor. I am a professor with a master's degree, but I don't have a doctorate. I agree that part of the problem is that we do have this very condensed...You know, this review as laudable as it is and that it's actually occurring, is condensed. In

Fisheries committee  Obviously I would need to have some more information about whether there were any impacts in terms of methylmercury from those hydro dams and other downstream effects.