Fisheries committee  Yes. The oceans protection plan is focused on the broad ocean, but it is about estuaries and the connection with rivers. There are a number of funds that try to connect those things up, between the oceans protection plan and what the Pacific Salmon Foundation is doing. There's al

Fisheries committee  No. As I say, there are other funds that focus on those areas. Both are vitally important. We have to address all of the elements of the life cycle, which include the streams where the larvae are, the lakes and the rivers where they are as juveniles, the estuary where they are fo

Fisheries committee  It's a critical issue. Part of the supplementary estimates (B) initiative is an initiative for renewing our program suites with indigenous groups. Those involve a number of programs, including the aboriginal guardian program, one through which we've realized, and certainly we hav

Fisheries committee  I spoke to that previously. There has been an investment that was dealt with in supplementary estimates (A), and we've committed to tabling something with regard to our program on those issues.

Fisheries committee  That was in supplementary estimates (A), I believe, either in the comprehensive review or the program integrity funding.

Fisheries committee  There were—and Sylvie, see if I have this right—19 FTEs created to work on this initiative. We actually do have a plan. I don't know if it has been posted, but it is soon to be posted. It outlines how many of the IFMPs are going to be updated this year, how many of the IFMPs that

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  This is largely built on and connected to the Atlantic growth strategy. There are three points I would make. First, it is linked to the Atlantic growth strategy. Second, of the four components of it, which are innovation, infrastructure, science research, and marketing, market

Fisheries committee  I'd make a couple of points. One is that we're actually out consulting right now on the wild salmon policy implementation plan. We have supported new investments in wild salmon on the west coast. The investment of $40 million last year in oceans and fisheries science has assist

Fisheries committee  Talk to our people who manage small craft harbours, and they'll say they always welcome more funds. In the small craft harbour core budget, the $75 million, we've had significant B-base or short-term injections. We had $149 million voted last year for last year and this year, wh

Fisheries committee  The answer is that long-term planning is required. We do as much as we can. We try to fix things so that we're not just doing a band-aid solution, knowing that we will have to kick it down the road. But with the amount of funds, with the criteria we have, it is sometimes the case

Fisheries committee  The small craft harbours group is extraordinarily good at landing on a dime and spending every penny they have. They do that every year. This year they have their plans in place. There's a grand total of $2.8 million in contingency that they've set aside, and that is assessed ba

Fisheries committee  I'll start, and I'll ask Sylvie to jump in. There are 750 approximately core harbours, about 1,000 overall including non-core, so, yes, that is approximately 10% of our core harbours.

Fisheries committee  I will ask Sylvia to speak to that one. We have a good sense of what's required. Our main objective is safety and security, so if you're looking at it from a safety and security perspective, and that is the key piece, we do seek to always make sure we're doing what we need to d

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's a pleasure to be here today on behalf of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and the Canadian Coast Guard to discuss supplementary estimates (B). I would have liked to begin by introducing some of my colleagues, but the chair has already done so. Throug