Finance committee  It's difficult to say, because it depends on how much access the government wants to transfer and in which fisheries, because they have different values. I would say that it's in perhaps the tens of millions of dollars as opposed to, say, hundreds of millions, and certainly not

Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  Thank you and good morning. Thank you for the invitation to appear today. It's a pleasure to be here in person. If I may be so bold, perhaps you saved the best for the last session of your consultations. The last time FCC appeared before this committee was in 2018, and I belie

Fisheries committee  Yes. In fact, that's one of our requests for the pre-budget consultations, not only for climate mitigation but just for innovation in general. We have a lot of opportunity in terms of growth. To achieve that growth, it's going to be by value, and that means investments in emergin

Fisheries committee  It would certainly be a challenge. There are other resellers and insurance brokers that the companies use now, so not everything is entirely with Lloyd's of London, but it is certainly a big player. Options that may or may not be that effective could be self-insurance and gettin

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  Did you want a longer answer? You told me to keep them short.

Fisheries committee  Yes, definitely: We have to go from 14% to 30% by 2030 in eight short years or seven short years. We ask for a lot of engagement with the sector throughout the process so that we know how we're going to be impacted and know what the conservation or the protection objective is, an

Fisheries committee  That's a good question, and it's one that I've been preoccupied with in terms of adaptation. As I mentioned in my opening remarks, DFO has been working with the FAO and allied jurisdictions to commission studies. The FAO has a thick tome of a study from I think 2018-2019 that w

Fisheries committee  Well, I think there's always a challenge in what the harvesters see on the water and what the catch rates are versus what the scientific models say. On that one, there's a real debate on which one is more accurate. We just need to continue having a dialogue on that to make sure t

Fisheries committee  From my vantage point, the level of engagement with the fishing sector as a whole, whether it be indigenous operators or non-indigenous operators, was left wanting. I think that given the importance of oceans to Canada—we have the largest coastline in the world—we have signific

Fisheries committee  I don't think we've really looked at using EI to help in this respect. I think you heard from the witnesses earlier this afternoon about how they're out of luck if they have not been able to work long enough to qualify. Then the question is whether you give them some sort of exem

Fisheries committee  We do, without a doubt. We're always looking at things strategically and trying to have a plan in place, because without a plan, the plan is to fail. One thing that comes to mind in the immediate term on the offshore harvesting side is that if there is a loss of a vessel, wheth

Fisheries committee  Yes, definitely. For processors that rely on independent harvesters for the raw material, that would definitely benefit them, for sure.

Fisheries committee  Thank you for that. Our products are in the cold supply chain, so they have to be refrigerated or frozen. For that cold storage, they need to have backup power to maintain the product. If it's frozen, then, yes, for a certain period of time they can be without power, but if it'