Fisheries committee  My understanding is that that is exactly what proposed section 18.04 allows. It is effectively an override of the maximum penalty, and that would be dependent on, of course, the situation. Every situation is different, but my understanding is that that section does allow that add

Fisheries committee  Thank you. I'm not a lawyer or a legal expert either, but I can provide you with what our legal counsel has...what my understanding is of the issue. I can only, of course, provide you with information based on a similar provision in the Fisheries Act. I can provide you with info

Fisheries committee  Thank you. I can speak to the experience that we've had in relation to the Fisheries Act because there is a similar provision in the Fisheries Act. As we've described, the intent is to allow the court to impose an additional penalty where the maximum is deemed as being not a su

Fisheries committee  Bill S-3 introduces an import prohibition, so we have the introduction here of an amendment to include penalties for those import prohibitions, and the fines are indicated there. Then there is the opportunity, or the potential, for the court to exceed that maximum with the refere

Fisheries committee  There is reference made there that despite the maximum amount of any fine, the court might provide for or require an additional fine to be paid. That is a decision that the courts would have to determine. The concern that I think you're expressing, to my understanding, is what i

Fisheries committee  Sorry. I provided a more complicated answer than you were asking, but yes.

Fisheries committee  For the answer to the question with regard to the level of the fines, I believe that was a question that was asked earlier by the committee. I had indicated that the level of the fines was determined by doing research into what existing penalty regimes we have under other pieces

Fisheries committee  Thank you. I would draw your attention to proposed new section 18.04. That is the financial benefit provision.

Fisheries committee  Thank you. Bill S-3 introduces import prohibitions under subsections 5.6(1) and 5.6(2). The penalties related to that are in section 18. That's in Bill S-3. The amendment that's being proposed is in relation to what was discussed earlier, which was to include a new prohibition

Fisheries committee  Thank you. We can certainly provide that information. On the issue of the bluefin tuna, as you probably know, we are a party to and a member of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas. We do participate in the decision making processes with regard to

Fisheries committee  We prepared some material on that request. I don't have the material in front of me, so we'd have to follow up.

Fisheries committee  No, it's not with me.

Fisheries committee  No.

Fisheries committee  We looked into the question you had asked or the committee had asked, but I don't have the answers in front of me. It's not my area of expertise, I'm sorry.

Fisheries committee  I'm sorry, I don't know where it is in the system.