Fisheries committee  Thank you for the question. Our job was to review all of the applications. We actually received nine. The department deemed that two were ineligible, so there were the remaining seven. We assessed those seven against criteria, direct benefits—

Fisheries committee  Sure.

Fisheries committee  Our job was to present the minister...do the memorandum, with options for his selection.

Fisheries committee  With respect to a decision docket that comes through, very often any docket can receive additional instructions. Dockets are the advice from departments to ministers, and it's typical that there can be incremental instructions.

Fisheries committee  I was not aware of any family connections.

Fisheries committee  In terms of a personal connection, I was not aware, and I would say that our department was not aware. Sorry, can I ask you to go back? I don't want to miss any elements of that.

Fisheries committee  We focus on the ethical screen that a minister would have set up through the Ethics Commissioner, and it is related to the J.D. Irving screen. We do not look at considerations over and above those formal screens put in place.

Fisheries committee  Yes, that's correct.

Fisheries committee  Correct. That's the intent.

Fisheries committee  Mr. Doherty, as you would know, in regard to the job of the department, we went through all the proposals that we got through an expression of interest, and the intent certainly was, as you point out, to ensure that the benefits of a fishery would go to indigenous Canadians. We p

Fisheries committee  Let me perhaps put a finer point on it. It was to explicitly include indigenous Canadians as the primary beneficiary. I didn't mean to slight a previous process. We do our best all the time to make sure that we consult, to the extent we can, with the indigenous partners, governme

Fisheries committee  That's actually not the understanding that the department has, and the corporation has made it clear to the department that they wish to proceed.

Fisheries committee  Mr. Donnelly, I may turn to our CFO to give you a bit of a breakdown.

Fisheries committee  I'll ask Mario.

Fisheries committee  I might touch on a first part of it. One of the things that has been interesting, through the science part of the department is that we really have been looking at the fate and behaviour of oil in water. Actually, our science folks let us know yesterday that Canada is participati