Fisheries committee  Very briefly, I hope—and I put my faith in this committee—that you put the Fisheries Act in a place that ensures we don't have collapses of fisheries like we've had in the past.

Fisheries committee  Yes, I would point to the lack of monitoring and the importance of monitoring and transparency in understanding where the measuring stick is. Also, in each watershed, how do we understand holistically the impacts on the watershed? How can we look back and understand the impact ov

Fisheries committee  Comment on WWF's relation to government or—

Fisheries committee  WWF did put out a statement saying that we, of course, were disappointed on the release of sewage into the St. Lawrence River, yes.

Fisheries committee  Yes. That's why we are presenting to the Fisheries Act.

Fisheries committee  First of all, thank you. I am an expert and was invited by this committee as an expert witness, so my testimony is from an expert perspective. In terms of rehabilitating habitat, yes, there is legislation around that. The Fisheries Act should be around protecting fish habitat. Y

Fisheries committee  That's a very good question. I can't speak to local fisheries. As I've said before, it needs to be consulted on and planned out and thought out, and science has to be brought to the table to ensure we're making decisions that are best for the community.

Fisheries committee  Yes. I will flesh this out in our final submission. Can you just repeat the question, because I want to make sure I'm answering it? Plans for depleted...?

Fisheries committee  Yes, because I think that's the role of mitigation and trying to address what has been lost, which should be a cornerstone of the Fisheries Act.

Fisheries committee  Again, please repeat it, just to make sure.

Fisheries committee  I'm going to give you a half-answer, because I want to make sure I consult the oceans experts. I would say again to go back to those principles. If we have guiding principles within our act, that would be half the answer. How are we including sustainability and precautionary prin

Fisheries committee  Sure. I think at this point there need to be some constraints around ministerial powers. I think evidence-based decision-making shouldn't be swayed by politics, and there are ways to ensure, within the act, that we are bringing the best science to the table to make decisions acro

Fisheries committee  I think we would go with a preamble, to make sure we have guiding principles to ensure that all decisions in the act follow suit within those guiding principles.

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much for the question. I do believe there is some reinstatement, but I think there is an opportunity to modernize in three ways. I would suggest monitoring, open data, and transparency, and then prescriptive guidances, and then our last one was specifically around

Fisheries committee  It's actually very little. WWF-Canada is part of an international network, but WWF-Canada's programming is within Canada. The freshwater program is all Canadian funding. The other programs are majority Canadian funds.