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June 3rd, 2020Committee meeting
Jean-Guy Forgeron
Fisheries committee I do not know the answers to those questions, because that falls under the work of my colleagues at ESDC. However, these are questions we're receiving from both the industry and our provincial counterparts, even most recently as this morning, from the provinces.
June 3rd, 2020Committee meeting
Jean-Guy Forgeron
Fisheries committee The harvesters' representatives are discussing with us and asking us questions about EI and the other programs. We are currently focused on our current DFO programs, which are going to be delivered by either the regional agencies or ESDC, to ensure that they're understandable eno
June 3rd, 2020Committee meeting
Jean-Guy Forgeron
Fisheries committee We don't have any responsibility directly for the Canada emergency wage subsidy. The fish harvester benefit program was a direct response to the fact that we realized our owner-operators and our share persons, who collectively made up the majority of the fishing fleets' crews, we
June 3rd, 2020Committee meeting
Jean-Guy Forgeron
Fisheries committee Occupational health and safety issues in our fishing fleet are actually within provincial jurisdiction, not federal jurisdiction. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has not been involved in that. The different provincial jurisdictions have worked with their harvesting communi
June 3rd, 2020Committee meeting
Jean-Guy Forgeron
Fisheries committee When it comes to what we're doing for the EI system for the commercial fleet, that is actually limited to those who are participating in the fishers' benefits of the EI system, which are the owner-operators and the share persons. It actually doesn't apply to the—
June 3rd, 2020Committee meeting
Jean-Guy Forgeron
Fisheries committee What I believe will be happening is that they'll be considered a part of how the government's approach would be to seasonal workers and their treatment under the regular national EI system, which is the responsibility, policy-wise, of ESDC and the Department of Finance. Fisheries
June 3rd, 2020Committee meeting
Jean-Guy Forgeron
Fisheries committee I'm not aware of any impacts regarding the foreign ownership in the Pacific. Sylvie, do you have any other knowledge of any possible impacts that might have happened?
June 3rd, 2020Committee meeting
Jean-Guy Forgeron
Fisheries committee The department is starting to look at the issue of foreign ownership, as a result of the considerations of this committee. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has no position on foreign ownership, as we can see by the difference in treatment of foreign ownership in the Pacif
June 3rd, 2020Committee meeting
Jean-Guy Forgeron
Fisheries committee Industry stakeholders have raised the need to target the domestic market a little more than has been done in the past. As you would all be aware as members of this committee, we're a very export-oriented industry. Our provincial colleagues have also raised this. We are discussin
June 3rd, 2020Committee meeting
Jean-Guy Forgeron
Fisheries committee The department hasn't undertaken any new expanded marketing efforts during this period of time. What we have been seeing is an increase in market demand slowly returning as things become normalized. We're now seeing that a bit in the Asian markets, which of course were the first
June 3rd, 2020Committee meeting
Jean-Guy Forgeron
Fisheries committee The program that was originally announced had both the agriculture and agri-food sector and the fish and seafood sector included in it. The $50 million always envisioned both sides of the food community. Whether or not there will be a plan after the program rolls out.... I do no
June 3rd, 2020Committee meeting
Jean-Guy Forgeron
Fisheries committee We hope to be announcing the details of these programs in the not-too-distant future. We are working with our colleagues at ESDC to develop the programming for these initiatives. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans historically doesn't deliver these types of programs. We are w
June 3rd, 2020Committee meeting
Jean-Guy Forgeron
Fisheries committee At this point there is no plan to waive fishing licence fees. I believe that in the case of mooring fees at small craft harbours, those are applied by the small craft harbour authorities, not by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Is that correct, Sylvie?
June 3rd, 2020Committee meeting
Jean-Guy Forgeron
Fisheries committee The objective of the government is to establish a program that has national application, which would be of benefit to all sectors across the economy. Initiatives such as the Canada emergency response benefit and the Canada emergency wage subsidy are examples of such things. As th
June 3rd, 2020Committee meeting
Jean-Guy Forgeron