Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Fisheries

Issue 20 - Minutes of Proceedings

OTTAWA, Tuesday, May 11, 1999
(36)

[English]

The Standing Senate Committee on Fisheries met this day at 5:40 p.m. in Room 505, Victoria Building, the Chairman, the Honourable Gerald Comeau, presiding.

Members of the committee present: The Honourable Senators Butts, Comeau, Cook, Perrault, P.C., Robichaud, P.C. (Saint-Louis-de-Kent) and Stewart (6).

In attendance: From the Research Branch of the Library of Parliament: Claude Emery, Research Officer.

Also in attendance: The official reporters of the Senate.

Pursuant to the Order of Reference adopted by the Senate on April 27, 1999, the committee continued its examination of Bill C-27, An Act to amend the Coastal Fisheries Protection Act and the Canada Shipping Act to enable Canada to implement the Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 Relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks and other international fisheries treaties or arrangements. (For full text of Order of Reference, please refer to Issue No. 19, May 4, 1999.)

WITNESSES:

As Individuals:

Mr. Donald J. Barry;

Mr. Clyde Sanger;

Mr. J. Alan Beesley, O.C., Q.C.

The Chair made an opening statement.

Mr. Barry made a statement and answered questions.

At 6:30 p.m., the committee suspended its sitting.

At 7:00 p.m., the committee resumed its sitting.

Mr. Sanger made a statement and answered questions.

At 7:45 p.m., the committee suspended its sitting.

At 8:15 p.m., the committee resumed its sitting.

Mr. Beesley made a statement and answered questions.

At 9:15 p.m., the committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.

ATTEST:

Barbara Reynolds

Clerk of the Committee