Fisheries committee  Jeff.

Fisheries committee  It is a target that is certainly ambitious, but a target that we believe we can meet through different measures. There's not only the MPA process. That's a small contribution to the overall 5%. We're looking at other measures and how they can contribute to the protected area ob

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  The 10% is where the MPAs.... There are the larger MPAs that we're working on for 2020. By modifying the Oceans Act to make it faster, we anticipate we will be able to meet the 10% by designating more MPAs. There is also the MPA network, which is a combination of different sites

Fisheries committee  It's at St. Anns Bank. It has been published in the Canada Gazette, part I. We received comments, and now we're analyzing the comments to prepare for a process with the Canada Gazette, part II. We are also in the process of consulting on the different comments. Maybe Annette c

Fisheries committee  Yes, that's correct.

Fisheries committee  Good morning. Thank you for inviting us today. We are pleased to support your interest in the government's efforts to protect our three oceans. As you are aware, on June 8, 2016, as part of the World Oceans Day celebrations, Ministers LeBlanc, McKenna, and Bennett announced the

Fisheries committee  The A-base budget of the program is $95 million, but every year for the last five years we have received money from infrastructure from a budget that supports more than the creation of new small craft harbours: all the moneys we receive from the FII-1 or FII-2 are dedicated to re

Fisheries committee  We plan to spend 100% of the money we receive from the A-base budget and also for the FII initiatives. It happens sometimes that because of weather and contracting issues, some of the project spending has to be delayed—a very small portion—to another year, but the budget of the

Environment committee  I think the questions we had today were very helpful with regard to how to better engage everyone. I think part of our success has to do with not how fast but how well we will be consulting and engaging stakeholders at all levels towards our targets. For example, when we're talk

Environment committee  I can start by maybe pointing out to colleagues from other departments that it's difficult to account for the contributions of indigenous people where they have treaty rights based on land and to determine how they can contribute to marine protected areas. There are some initiati

Environment committee  The department sits on a bilateral committee — federal and provincial — on protected marine areas that Environment Canada and Parks Canada and three provincial government departments also sit on it. The objective of the committee is to designate marine areas of interest and make

Environment committee  We can provide you with names of some that were either downgraded or completely delisted. There are a few. I think the humpback whale was the most recent one. It was published in the registry just a few months ago.

Environment committee  They are aware of our targets. They are aware of our plan. We're engaging also at the regional and local levels when necessary to support our objectives. When we present some potential areas of interest, it's always for their consideration and to add their comments, so they're en

Environment committee  That's a broad question. I would say mostly yes, but I have to put that in context. Based on a reconciliation perspective, I totally support the 50/50 partnership. The question we have to take into consideration, and it's more related to fisheries management than marine conserva