Fisheries committee  Thank you. With regard to the oceans protection plan, we have a historic investment in protecting our oceans, which is the lifeblood of many of our communities, of course. I was proud that this plan provided for the reopening of the Coast Guard substation, which you referenced i

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I say welcome to our honourable officials, and thank you for being with us today. I'm going to focus my questions on a couple of topics. First, small craft harbours are very important to my riding of Bonavista—Burin—Trinity, with over 100 harbours on the

Fisheries committee  Madam Chair, after conferring with my colleagues here, we're prepared to accept Mr. Donnelly's proposal that suggests that we would put in the “reasonable” time frame. We are good with that.

Fisheries committee  Madam Chair, could we suspend for a couple of minutes?

Fisheries committee  Madam Chair, I'm not so sure that would accomplish anything really. The bottom line is that when you're talking about the sustainability of fish stocks or rebuilding the fish stocks, there are a lot of important decisions to be made. Obviously we don't want to see the catastrop

Fisheries committee  Madam Chair, I asked you to include the subamendment with the amendment before I started. I'm assuming we're dealing with the entire amendment.

Fisheries committee  I think probably I could turn to the officials and ask them to comment on some of that.

Fisheries committee  There's one correction in the French version. Pat is going to make a comment on that.

Fisheries committee  Overall, if you look at the total amendment, it's primarily aimed at dealing with issues around stock conservation and endangered stocks. I'll use for example the cod fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador right now. It was a major decline in 2018. Obviously, the minister has to ta

Fisheries committee  Before we deal with LIB-1.1, I'd like to ask permission to propose subsection 6(3), an amendment to this LIB-1.1. As a proposed subsection, 6.3 reads: The major fish stock referred to in sections 6.1 and 6.2 are to be prescribed by regulations. That would be incorporated i

Fisheries committee  Madam Chair, we're suggesting the removal of paragraph (e). Other than that, we move the amendment as presented. This is in keeping with amendments that we put forward for Bill C-69. (Amendment agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])

Fisheries committee  Madam Chair, I would ask that clause 9 stand.

Fisheries committee  Mr. Miller, it's been pointed out by my staff that there's a discrepancy in the text, and we need to get that corrected before we bring the clause forward. (Clause 9 allowed to stand) (Clauses 10 to 19 inclusive agreed to on division) (On Clause 20)

Fisheries committee  Thank you. I'm trying to get a sense of how to do this legislation properly and correctly so as to have real impact for you people on the Pacific coast. I'm trying to get a sense of what this committee should recommend to the minister or DFO going forward. That's where I am; I

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I have a couple of questions for Duncan and Tasha. First let me say that it's nice to hear from you today, Duncan, talking about the financial challenges of acquiring licences or doing the things you need to do to stay in a fishery. To start a fishery a