Fisheries committee  Once a species is listed as endangered, you have one year to come up with a recovery plan. It's not happening for most of the species. If a species is listed as threatened, you have two years to come up with a recovery plan. That's not happening.

Fisheries committee  Sorry?

Fisheries committee  Well, only four out of the 14 were done on time, so 10 out of 14 were late, anywhere from three years to potentially a lot more years late.

Fisheries committee  Yes, it's under the Species at Risk Act.

Fisheries committee  What we found in our audit was that prior to those whales being found dead in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, there were tools available and that Canada wasn't really using those tools to protect marine mammals. Since the time that those whales were found dead in 2017, we found that t

Fisheries committee  That's correct. We were looking at species at risk. We were looking at the threats based on commercial fisheries and vessels.

Fisheries committee  When I indicated whales, dolphins and seals, I was giving examples of the types of marine mammals that we have in Canada, not that they were endangered. I can tell you there is one small population of harbour seal that is on the endangered species list, and it's from Lacs des L

Fisheries committee  I did not mean to make it sound like harbour seals generally were endangered. I was giving you examples of marine mammals.

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, I am pleased to be here today to discuss my report on protecting marine mammals, which was tabled in Parliament on October 2. I am accompanied by Kimberley Leach, the principal responsible for this audit. Our audit looked at what the government had done to protect mar

Fisheries committee  You would have to ask the department that.

Fisheries committee  In this audit, the salmon issue came up because of the southern resident killer whale situation off the coast of British Columbia. We've done another audit on integrated fisheries management plans, which we could come and talk to you about, where we looked at the federal govern

Fisheries committee  I said it feels like a marathon.

Fisheries committee  We had some very senior-level, high-level discussions with the deputy on this issue. They were very aware of the issues. We were very careful in the use of our language in our audit to not add fuel to the fire. We indicated to the deputy that we very much understood the issue tha

Fisheries committee  That's a great question. I don't know if Elsa has anything specific. We were looking at tools that they have to protect marine mammals. Those included the Species at Risk Act—

Fisheries committee  Is there a concern level within DFO? I'm going to have to ask Elsa—