Fisheries committee  Sure. I really can't be bought. I think that should be clear. I don't do this work for the money. I do it because I care and it's important. I absolutely believe that more collaboration and delivery on the ground with diverse stakeholders is the way we're going to achieve change

Fisheries committee  I think we have a lot of work to do with indigenous fisheries and first nations. It's a very difficult and interesting topic right now. I think the balance between livelihoods and FSE fisheries and rights to earn a living for our first nations is paramount right now, and I think

Fisheries committee  I haven't thought a great deal about this, but I do think learning from the indigenous guardians program and building that will be important. As we move towards having marine protected areas in coastal areas, making sure that fishermen and the fishing associations that have the v

Fisheries committee  Yes. At the ground level, when it comes to where the boundaries are and what the process is, absolutely.

Fisheries committee  There's no money from DFO that goes towards any of the work we do on MPAs. We have less than $1,000....

Fisheries committee  I think it's quite important that you understand that it's for our living shorelines and climate change adaptation work, which does not cross over with our policy on marine protected areas work.

Fisheries committee  They are totally different staff members. I think in some ways, the mandate letter that said collaboration with Canadians and broad stakeholders ended up meaning that there has been much more funding going to a whole lot of stakeholders.

Fisheries committee  We're very careful that there is never any conflict. We have a small bit of funding for species at risk work, which I think is very important in terms of—

Fisheries committee  Yes, but it is a very small amount.

Fisheries committee  I absolutely think it should be made public.

Fisheries committee  Yes. We can't underestimate the budget cuts and the staffing cuts made to DFO over the past decade. That significantly altered the ability and the institutional memory of the department. I think co-governance and co-management are a way forward on that, because then it's not tie

Fisheries committee  I would say that one of the things I am most proud of in the last year was that during the UN ocean meeting, which was in June, I advocated very strongly and hard to ensure that Melanie Sonnenberg, from the Canadian Independent Fish Harvester's Federation, was also on the delegat

Fisheries committee  Yes, I can reiterate them, but in alignment with international recommendations, industrial activity should be prohibited from marine protected areas. Again, that's why we have marine spatial planning so we can understand where those industrial activities take place. They don't ha

Fisheries committee  Yes. I was a bit worried that Mr. Doherty was intimating that only environmental groups get consulted. When I gave my number of 75 to 100 meetings, that's over 10 to 15 years, and it included a marine spatial planning process. For the most part, those meetings are multi-stakehold

Fisheries committee  Sure. I will say a lot of my experience in terms of fishing has been to work closely with the fishing industry on closing down areas to all bottom fishing. I actually think some of the Fisheries Act closures that are happening, particularly on Atlantic Canada's east coast are,