Fisheries committee  To your point, it has been around for a long time.

Fisheries committee  I'll expand on that comment. My meaning was that you can have the assurance of having a productivity net positive, a net gain in productivity. A lot of what happens with the existing regulatory regime is that you have some uncertainty with your offsetting plan. If you're going t

Fisheries committee  Yes, Port Metro Vancouver. Thank you. For smaller players, that sort of science advisory group within DFO would be beneficial.

Fisheries committee  I have no expectation of the timeline according to which regulations would come forward through DFO. I think what we're looking for, and sort of supporting, is enabling legislation to get it started. I share your concerns. I think that's what smart regulations are for. I think a

Fisheries committee  You're asking a very hydro-centric question, and I'm happy to try.... I can't quantify that; I'll start with that. However, the idea of developing hydroelectricity and developing reservoirs is a question of how you perceive the development. There is change on the landscape. Whe

Fisheries committee  I think you're specifically speaking to sea-run or oceanic fisheries in which salmon come into and out of a river every year. We don't necessarily have many of those per se in Ontario.

Fisheries committee  Absolutely. I think there are a lot of examples in the States of how these banks get established and who invests in them originally to get them going, but productivity does change over time. In the case of OPG's Big Island wetland, I believe there was a hypothesis or a projecte

Fisheries committee  I can, provided that there are no limitations on their ability to do the work today. If there are no capacity issues or no financial limitations to these organizations going out and doing more, then I would agree with you, but if there are organizations that are looking to take o

Fisheries committee  I was just going to add to that. I'm writing them down as I'm listening to Mr. Norris. One is transparent debit and credit systems, something that the Canadian public would have confidence in. Another is a science-based and evidence-based approach, such as science advisory comm

Fisheries committee  Again, I would have to get back to you. I can't speak off the top of my head.

Fisheries committee  Sure. Absolutely. With a large project like a new nuclear project, you're trying to quantify the potential impacts of the facility in advance, so there's a lot of teamwork and a lot of collaboration that go into assessing the impact of the new facility. Once that is establishe

Fisheries committee  I'm looking through our notes. We're doing annual reporting, so I have our annual report here for 2018. I believe that project was undertaken around 2013.

Fisheries committee  Well, I don't think we've seen that yet, simply because our generation lasts so long. We're still on our first generation of....

Fisheries committee  That's a great question. I think that comes down to the hierarchical approach that the regulator is bound to pursue, so I can see that as a potential criticism. Having been part of many projects while I have worked in the industry over the past 20 years, I haven't seen that appro

Fisheries committee  Sure. I can speak only to the Big Island wetland project. We have an advisory team that includes a research scientist from DFO and different universities. They look at the accounting of our credits. They are actually measuring the productivity of our bank and ensuring that it is