Finance committee  I would have to go back and do a real financial analysis to give you a truly accurate answer, but off the top of my head, I'll say it would not get you very far. When you look at what needs to go into designating a marine protected area, you have multiple sectors that have a stak

Finance committee  It is; it's a drop in the proverbial ocean.

Finance committee  It's more than that; $600 million, in our mind, would actually comprehensively cover an integrated management planning process for the five ocean areas that have been identified in the oceans action plan.

Finance committee  It provides $19 million, with no funds identified toward integrated management. That $19 million is supposed to cover pollution prevention, establishment of marine protected areas, enforcement and surveillance, and anything else in terms of protection.

Finance committee  I can give a really good example. I was just in an area of British Columbia called Rivers Inlet, which is a small coastal community in the central coast of British Columbia. This is a community that once had 6 million salmon running in its inlet. It had an oolichan fishery, which

Finance committee  Thank you for inviting me to appear before the finance committee. My remarks today will focus on the implications of the lack of dedicated funding in Budget 2007 to integrated oceans management. I will be commenting on two key areas: why the amounts allocated towards oceans healt