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Environment committee  I doubt I can answer that question in 10 seconds. The facility must be located so that there is no possibility of effluent from the facility entering public waters.

November 29th, 2022Committee meeting

Karen Wristen

Environment committee  When we're looking at containment facilities, one of the most important things is how the effluent cleaning process is designed. We have a terrific example of a good way to do that in the Kuterra closed-containment facility built by Namgis First Nation on Vancouver Island. In t

November 29th, 2022Committee meeting

Karen Wristen

Environment committee  I have heard witnesses speak very profoundly about those issues, and what struck me most was how aghast they were at the thought that a fish that has not only sustained them by way of providing food directly but sustained their entire ecosystem could possibly now be owned by a co

November 29th, 2022Committee meeting

Karen Wristen

Environment committee  I think the Senate addressed a number of them. The main concern we had was, of course, the ability of citizens to participate in the process, to provide evidence, to review evidence and to know how these living organisms are being assessed. I think the Senate amendments have gon

November 29th, 2022Committee meeting

Karen Wristen

Environment committee  Thank you for the question. I will take the human health issue first. The concern here is with respect to unintended consequences of gene editing and genetic engineering, which can be the production of proteins that are allergens for some people. That's not to say that every GMO

November 29th, 2022Committee meeting

Karen Wristen

Environment committee  That was the health side of things. On the genetic issue that was raised, the problem is that these fish will compete. They're quite capable of interbreeding with wild Atlantic salmon. They are also capable of competing with them for food, and given that they're engineered to gr

November 29th, 2022Committee meeting

Karen Wristen

Environment committee  Thank you for the question. I should begin by saying that the need to demonstrate the need for the living organism isn't a departure from the risk assessment; it's in addition to the risk assessment. Let's be clear on that. We definitely do need to have risk assessments. When w

November 29th, 2022Committee meeting

Karen Wristen

Environment committee  They do go a great distance to satisfying those concerns. I am aware that Nature Canada has filed or is about to file a brief with you in which they detail slight tweaks to the language that would make even clearer exactly what we want. I would commend those amendments to you

November 29th, 2022Committee meeting

Karen Wristen

Environment committee  Thank you for the opportunity to address you on CEPA. Living Oceans Society is a non-profit dedicated to ecosystem-based management of Canada's oceans. I serve as its executive director. It's been 22 years since the act came into force, and during that time genetic engineerin

November 29th, 2022Committee meeting

Karen Wristen

Fisheries committee  If I may, funding on a regular, annual basis is needed to fund all of the shoreline cleanup work that needs to be done, whether it's a result of ongoing activity on the ocean or container spills.

March 31st, 2022Committee meeting

Karen Wristen

Fisheries committee  Thank you. What I would most like to see is the establishment of the joint spill response task force, integrating it among the federal, provincial and first nations jurisdictions involved and getting it properly resourced to be able to respond to a spill in a timely manner.

March 31st, 2022Committee meeting

Karen Wristen

Fisheries committee  Internationally, there has been quite a bit of work done to improve the rules for carriage at sea. That work is summarized in the Rotterdam Convention—to which we are not a party—driven largely by the EU, I believe. If you want to look to a regime that provides more modern and re

March 31st, 2022Committee meeting

Karen Wristen

Fisheries committee  Perhaps I could take a first cut at this. The first nations communities in question are quite small and remote. They do not have the capacity at the present time to participate in the kind of standing joint task force that I suggest we need to have on this coast. They must be g

March 31st, 2022Committee meeting

Karen Wristen

Fisheries committee  The fact is that the larger ships are more vulnerable to windage. They're stacking so many containers so high that these ships are quite vulnerable to losing their centre of gravity, if you will, in the wind. They're also vulnerable to high seas. A long ship in a high sea can suf

March 31st, 2022Committee meeting

Karen Wristen

Fisheries committee  I don't know, and it's rather alarming to me that I don't know, because I've been asking for information about the spill from the Coast Guard and did not get anything back. All Canadians deserve to know what the spill response regime is, and what lessons we learned from Zim Kin

March 31st, 2022Committee meeting

Karen Wristen