Fisheries committee  We've been asked to look at the possibilities and the potential pros and cons, and we've provided that advice.

Fisheries committee  We've provided advice in terms of what it might look like if it were delivered via another government department.

Fisheries committee  We can provide that information, yes.

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, the funding is appropriated to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Then, with that funding, DFO funds the sea lamprey control program. The remainder of the funding that's been appropriated to DFO will flow through to the GLFC, as Mr. Lambe has indicated, for the re

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, I still feel there's a requirement for clarification. The amount of funding that is held by DFO to provide sea lamprey control is subject to negotiation with GLFC. It's not simply arbitrary. There is no arbitrary component to the way that funding is decided—

Fisheries committee  The entire appropriation will be present in the public accounts of Canada.

Fisheries committee  It's for the period in question, two years, yes.

Fisheries committee  We are still working through that in terms of.... The amount will be in the public accounts. The total amount will be in the public accounts, but going forward in terms of what that looks like, if there is additional sea lamprey control and so on, then of course that's subject to

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, all the work I have done since arriving as a CFO inside the department has been done in consultation with my GLFC colleagues.

Fisheries committee  The member's question was whether I had consulted.

Fisheries committee  On that note, no, I had not. It was simply a clarification of the Treasury Board submission. Going forward from that point on, everything was done in collaboration and coordination with the GLFC.

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, perhaps I can just clarify with respect to the way the funding flows. The funding for the delivery of sea lamprey control does not go to the GLFC and then get billed back to DFO—

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, the member brings up one of the issues that have been part of the conversation we've been having with GLFC: ensuring we have the presence of the GLFC in our public accounts of Canada. We're happy to note that going forward they will have a line item in the public accou

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, thank you for the question. Certainly, at the senior official level, we have spent considerable time with the GLFC team to codify, as you pointed out, and future-proof—to steal one of my colleague's comments—the relationship, so that the tenets of the convention are r

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, just to reiterate the relationship, and going back to the convention as a foundational piece, first of all, the requirements, as the member has set out, are set by the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, but the budget is actually then approved by the contracting parties,