Fisheries committee  When I comment about independent science, I envision a lab, a team of qualified, certified, experienced scientists accomplishing the same science as DFO, with an agreed-upon methodology, an agreed-upon process, where the outcome leads to truth, not something that is biased toward

Fisheries committee  When we consider Justice Cohen's report, he was very clear there is not one industry or one impact that is annihilating the salmon in British Columbia. What we need is a holistic approach considering all of the stressors, all of the impacts, and reaching out and changing what we

Fisheries committee  In terms of pinnipeds, I don't know enough about them. I know there is support for a culling, but there's also a need for watershed restoration and so forth to assist B.C. salmon.

Fisheries committee  There's a group of bogeymen. That's the thing. We need to identify them all and reduce them by whatever means is acceptable to protect wild salmon. Today, we don't have that. We don't have an eye for the protection of salmon in British Columbia. We have mitigation plans, which ha

Fisheries committee  Thank you for your question. When I consider that the provincial and federal governments have both made commitments to fulfill reconciliation, to implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, this to me is that evolution. We must not wait for the great big si

Fisheries committee  The evolution is like everything else. Every other industry's been brought to a place of evolution, whether it's mining or whether it's forestry. It is time now for Canada to do the same for land-based closed-containment. When you consider that it would not need to be coastal, an

Fisheries committee  I've been called many things in my life.

Fisheries committee  I believe, and this is supported by what is occurring globally, that the land-based closed-containment fish farm industry is taking hold. I'm aware that the industry publication IntraFish in the past year or so actually started to do a monthly update on this growing portion of aq

Fisheries committee  In my earlier remarks, I highlighted what Mr. Jay Parsons' response was to me when I dissected and presented the CSAS process. When I say “lack of objective science”, I'm speaking about CSAS in relation to open-net cage fish farms. When you have a proponent of fish farm company

Fisheries committee  Is that directed to me?

Fisheries committee  The comments I would provide are based upon information that Alexandra Morton shared with me. I also speak with the leadership from my first nation, the Kwikwasut'inuxw Haxwa'mis, the 'Namgis First Nation and the Mamalilikulla. They are the ones who are doing this independent sci

Fisheries committee  When we think about first nations, lands, decision-making and consent as the government pursues this, it would be fine and wonderful if the impacts remained site-specific, but clearly they don't. This being the reality and the fact associated with migratory wild salmon, the gover

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Lisa Marie, for using my traditional name. I greatly appreciate it. In terms of the precautionary principle, during the consultation process for Discovery Islands, that was a big part of the discussions, and we learned that there is no policy pertaining to fish farms

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the question. Consider that there were no salmon rivers directly adjacent to the fish farms in Discovery Islands. The whole consultation process was about the impacts through migratory salmon. When that is the basis and when you consider the Supreme Court ruling o

Fisheries committee  Thank you. The Broughton Archipelago fish farm LOU with the Province of British Columbia was a shared recommendation and some shared decision-making that implemented the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which of course the federal government has co