Fisheries committee  As I mentioned last week, the department doesn't have a global policy on foreign ownership, one policy across the country. We have no particular foreign ownership rules on the west coast, and we have two sets on the east coast: one for the inshore fishery, which has no foreign ow

Fisheries committee  As a result of the comments and deliberations of this committee last year on the west coast licensing information, we decided, as a department, to launch a pan-Canadian policy review on the issue of foreign policy ownership to see what the right answer is, not only from a nationa

Fisheries committee  They are the two new programs that we're launching at DFO, the benefit program and the grant program. There are no family-relation issues that we see as being issues for those two programs.

Fisheries committee  Sylvie, do you have any comments on the information that the shrimp industry has provided to us? I know they have reached out to us and talked to us about the issues they're facing.

Fisheries committee  One thing I can say right right off the top is that we know that as this industry comes off of the employment insurance, it is eligible for CERB. We expect it will be eligible for fisheries EI as a sector, and as I mentioned earlier, the details of that will be done by ESDC. The

Fisheries committee  We don't have a specific answer to that question, other than to say that the representatives of the harvester communities as well as our provincial counterparts have raised that as an issue of concern for new entrants into the fisheries, in that they don't have that history to ma

Fisheries committee  The department's focus has been dealing with those parts of the fish and seafood community that it is directly in the business of regulating, which is our fish harvesting community. I believe that recreational fishing businesses are seasonal businesses that would fall more under

Fisheries committee  Sylvie, do you have any information in response to that question?

Fisheries committee  Sylvie, do you want to respond?

Fisheries committee  When it comes to whom we expect to be eligible for the fish harvester benefit, the groups that will be eligible will be the licence-holders, the owner-operators of the inshore fleet, as well as the share persons who make up another 6,000 members of the crews of—

Fisheries committee  The timeline....

Fisheries committee  That's one of the mandate commitments of our minister. We are planning on supporting the minister in meeting all of her mandate commitments over the course of this mandate. It is still our intention to have a responsible plan with regard to the transition of open-net aquaculture

Fisheries committee  Sylvie.

Fisheries committee  I saw reports on that confusion just yesterday. We believe on the face of it they should be eligible for these programs, but we can double-check to see and make sure there is no specific impediment to them because of the unique nature of this fishery. As a licensed fishery, whic

Fisheries committee  Dominic.