Fisheries committee  I am wracking my brain as to the extent of knowledge I hold on Bill C-42, which is not sufficient to address the question that you're putting to me, I'm afraid.

Fisheries committee  To my understanding, the preponderance of corporations that are found within all fisheries nationally are registered within their provincial area of jurisdiction. They would be registered under provincial law. There has been a heightened effort across the country, with a number o

Fisheries committee  In the interest of time, I would suggest we provide this committee with the survey itself and the questions therein, so that you can see what we asked.

Fisheries committee  I am familiar with other pieces of work that certainly have provided a similar indication. We're anticipating the results of our own survey in the next few days, and then getting back out to stakeholders and making it publicly available within the next couple of weeks. We'll dete

Fisheries committee  Here, I would draw upon my regional colleague. We do in fact have corporate concentration limits in terms of the number of licences that can be held by a party, or the extent of quota that can be held by a party, detailed within the integrated fisheries management plans on a fish

Fisheries committee  I am aware of that requirement and of it being a priority of the government to bring that in.

Fisheries committee  Business holders, licence-holders, can elect to register their corporation either at a federal level or at a provincial level, so there would be provincial jurisdiction that could apply here. Equally, they do not have to register as a corporate entity. They do so typically for ta

Fisheries committee  We still feel that the survey results will be accurate. They're certainly statistically relevant, and in conjunction with the information that our forensic audit colleagues are able to provide and glean from publicly available sources—business registries and the like, not just do

Fisheries committee  That is correct. The purpose of the beneficial ownership survey was to identify the natural persons, the humans, at the very end of those flows of benefits.

Fisheries committee  We know who the title-holder is in terms of who holds that licence, who is on record as holding that licence, but in terms of the flow of benefits derived from the licence, you are correct.

Fisheries committee  That's correct. It's through the beneficial ownership survey that we're getting back to those natural persons.

Fisheries committee  For the benefit of all, including myself, the Crown would retain the ownership of all licences. The Crown is ultimately the owner. All parties are holders of licences, not owners of licences. To your question, yes, the question would have flowed to the holder of the licence. Th

Fisheries committee  Thank you. To validate the responses, we provided all of that information to the forensic auditors over at PSPC, who are able to use a lot of public-source information to cross-reference and validate the survey results, identify inaccuracies or things that seem unusual to them a

Fisheries committee  There were certainly a number of touchpoints over the course of the survey submission window—when it was open for respondents to submit their information—where they sought additional insight from us as to the nature of the questions and what we were seeking to have provided. We d

Fisheries committee  I think that would be a matter of speculation on my part, but it's probably pursuant to their own particular business arrangements that they feel may be at risk due to their taking a proactive stance on certain facets of those arrangements.