Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Fisheries

Issue 21 - Fourth Report of the Committee

OTTAWA, Thursday, May 13, 1999

The Standing Senate Committee on Fisheries has the honour to present its

FOURTH REPORT

Your Committee, to which was referred 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, has, in obedience to the Order of Reference of Tuesday, April 27, 1999, examined the said Bill and now reports the same without amendment.

Observation:

Your Committee notes that it instructed the Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel to correct a printing error in the parchment by adding the following words in the English version of the bill, on page 6, in clause 4, after the last word on line 18: "pursuit that began while the vessel was in Canadian fisheries waters.".

Respectfully submitted,

GERALD J. COMEAU

Chair