Hon. Lawrence MacAulay (Cardigan, Lib.):

Mr. Speaker, an internal memo to DFO employees has laid out the government’s plans to wind down large ocean management projects, slash funding for science, services, aquaculture and other crucial departmental responsibilities. It seems that fishing communities are caught in the middle of the Conservative attack on facts and evidence.

Will the government stop its plan to destroy DFO and destroy Canada’s fisheries and coastal communities?

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Hon. Keith Ashfield (Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and Minister for the Atlantic Gateway, CPC):

Mr. Speaker, of course nothing could be further from the truth. Science is an important part of fisheries management and we honour that principle and will continue in the future gaining information from science to better manage our fisheries.

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