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House Hansard - 217

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 20, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 217 - Jun/20/23
Mr. Clifford Small (Coast of Bays—Central—Notre Dame, CPC)
  • Jun/20/23 3:09:04 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, these Liberals have had eight years of blaming everyone and everything for their failures, and they have failed yet again. This time the Liberals have failed to release quotas for northern cod, east coast capelin, mackerel and southwestern Nova Scotia herring on time. Harvesters and processors cannot count on the fisheries minister to deliver the decisions that their livelihoods depend on. Will the Liberal government stop failing the fishing industry and announce these quotas immediately?
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Context: House Hansard - 217 - Jun/20/23
Ms. Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands, GP)
  • Jun/20/23 9:53:05 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-42 
Madam Speaker, I want to come back to something quite shocking the hon. member told the House. I know it is true because it happens on the B.C. coast too. We have a fleet separation in B.C. that is more extreme than what happens in Nova Scotia. The people who are fishing do not own their own business. They are essentially employees in a vast machine. In British Columbia, billionaire Jimmy Pattison controls the entire herring stock. I want the hon. member to perhaps reflect on what it means that DFO is giving fishing licences when it does not actually know who owns the businesses that are depleting our fish stocks. People, not necessarily foreign corporations, are completely unconnected from care and concern for the health of biodiversity.
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