Fisheries committee  With just 30 seconds available now, I may need to give you a written answer to be thorough and precise. How could it plug it? If I may, Mr. Chair, I would like to respond in writing to that question to be appropriate.

Fisheries committee  If I may, I've lived in New Zealand for 14 years in the South Island. In 2000, there was the beginning of a process of granting greater access to fisheries to Maori groups, and rightly so. What I have seen, however, is that within 10 years is that all of the licences were then h

Fisheries committee  Another avenue could be explored, that of giving the Department of Fisheries and Oceans an effective socio‑economic mandate by giving it the means to manage these aspects of the fishery. Since 1993, the DFO has had no real socio‑economic mandate. Yet inshore fishers are the lar

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the question. At no time in the last few years have we been aware of any socio‑economic impact studies conducted by DFO on decisions they may have made, whether it be, for example, in the management of the right whale—where our regional county municipality (RCM) l

Fisheries committee  A number of aspects actually seem unusual to us. The transfer of licences to first nations is one example. Another unusual aspect is the vertical consolidation of a number of the fisheries. As I explained in my testimony, many of the commercial communal licences are held by gro

Fisheries committee  If I may, it is difficult to speculate on the intentions of the government or of DFO. But certainly what we have been seeing on the ground and how the fisheries and the fishermen's organizations have been treated and the lack of socio-economic studies and socio-economic competenc

Fisheries committee  From the Quebec point of view, there has been no information and no consultation at all about it. However, this is a deal that concerns first nations in other provinces—in British Columbia and Nova Scotia. Martin may be aware of consultations. I'm not aware of any.

Fisheries committee  Yes, Mr. Chair.

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Distinguished members of the committee, thank you for hearing the testimony today from the Regroupement des pêcheurs professionnels du sud de la Gaspésie, which represents 148 lobster fishers. The coastal communities of the Gaspé depend heavily o

Fisheries committee  It's urgent and essential to develop a fair and equitable process that gives first nations, commercial fishers and the government the chance to sit down together to find acceptable solutions for everyone. The government's current fisheries management process is directly responsi

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much for your comments, Ms. Gill. Indeed, we are in a forum that is meant to be informative for everyone. We want to understand the situation that urgently brings us all together today at the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans. In the current situation, it

Fisheries committee  Indeed, a number of licences were bought back by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and given to the three first nations that are present on the Gaspé Peninsula territory. These are commercial licences. You will have the details in our written presentations, which will be sub

Fisheries committee  I'll continue the presentation, if you don't mind. I will now turn to the notion of moderate livelihood. In 1993, in a judgment of the British Columbia Court of Appeal in Van der Peet, Judge Taggart indicated that, in his view, regardless of its origins, the concept of "moderat

Fisheries committee  Mr. Cloutier will be speaking.