Fisheries committee  I think we can provide the list of where those projects are. Most of them have been announced and work is under way on them.

Fisheries committee  We're going to make sure we do hear from as many Canadians as we can. Regarding funding, in terms of the engagement, as you know we have a federal-provincial table that's working on this, including deputies meeting with provinces today on the Fisheries Act and other issues. We

Fisheries committee  It's a total amount of $360,000 that is being moved from last year's funding to this year's funding to be able to complete the work on those projects. Naufrage is construction of a wharf and repairs to the breakwater. Alberton is wharf repairs. I know Naufrage is completed and Al

Fisheries committee  No.

Fisheries committee  Yes. It's the latter. In other words, we get $75 million a year. That's the A-base budget and it's ongoing. We get it every year. This year, they said, “We're going to give you $149 million over two years.” They didn't say how we had to divide it up, but we have done that. With

Fisheries committee  Thanks for the question. I'll start with where you started, which is around the agriculture but also the interpretation of the act. The last time the minister and I both said this. There is more room for interpretation around commercial, recreational, and aboriginal fisheries,

Fisheries committee  Trevor Swerdfager would probably have the specific answer to that. I believe some of them will be assigned to those areas. What I can say is it was a very significant amount of money: $40 million a year plus $1.5 million a year for freshwater. That does speak to the issues around

Fisheries committee  The funding goes to fisheries. I don't know if it's enhancements specifically, but I do know that fisheries biology and stock assessment are more than half. There is a percentage for aquaculture, a percentage for freshwater science, and a percentage for ocean science writ large.

Fisheries committee  A divestiture program was originally booked for Little Tancook harbour in Nova Scotia. It looks as if that particular divestiture is not going to happen, at least not this year. We're hoping that it will happen. It's a question of diverting the funds to a different project, which

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much for that question. I would say it is a huge challenge. We do try to integrate our small craft harbours group as much as we can with our fisheries groups, as well as to engage with the harbour authorities. The harbour authorities have made an enormous differen

Fisheries committee  No, understood.

Fisheries committee  I think you've heard from the agriculture community their views on why it was the challenge that it was. I'd say a couple of things. One is it wasn't all dismal. We actually did have some class authorizations for agricultural drains in Ontario and in other areas, so we were wor

Fisheries committee  Taking Nova Scotia as an example, there is a process under way that brings together the fisheries organizations and other industries, and they've been meeting for many years. There's something called ESSIM, which stands for the eastern Scotian shelf integrated management plan. Th

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the question. It continues to be both of those things. What I would say—and I think I said this at the time, as well—is what's most exciting about it is that it's truly galvanized the department and the stakeholders, and even the fishing industry and others, to say

Fisheries committee  I think it's always difficult with new legislation, and this was certainly the case. We'd had 30 years' experience, I think it was, with section 35, the harmful alteration, disruption, and destruction of habitat. It was absolutely clear, and much jurisprudence built up on it. Wit