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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
Meeting No. 56
Tuesday, June 4, 2002
The Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans met in camera at 9:12 a.m. this day, in Room 536, Wellington Building, the Chair, Wayne Easter, presiding.
Members of the Committee present: Sarkis Assadourian, Andy Burton, John Cummins, Rodger Cuzner, Wayne Easter, Georges Farrah, Loyola Hearn, Dominic LeBlanc, James Lunney, Bill Matthews, Lawrence O'Brien, Jean-Yves Roy, Paul Steckle, Peter Stoffer, Suzanne Tremblay, Tom Wappel.
Acting Member present: John Efford for Tom Wappel.
In attendance: From the Library of Parliament: Alan Nixon, Lorie Srivastava, François Côté, Research Officers.
The Committee resumed consideration of a draft report on the implications of extending Canada's Exclusive Economic Zone to include the Nose and Tail of the Grand Banks and the Flemish Cap.
It was agreed, - That the Draft Report, as amended, of the Committee's study of overfishing on the Nose and Tail of the Grand Banks pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), be adopted as the Committee's Tenth Report, and that the Chair present the said report to the House.
It was agreed, - That the Chair be authorized to make such typographical and editorial changes as may be necessary without changing the substance of the Report.
It was agreed, - That the Report be entitled, “Foreign Overfishing – Its Impacts and Solutions: Conservation on the Nose and Tail of the Grand Bank and the Flemish Cap.
It was agreed, - That, pursuant to Standing Order 109, the Committee request the Government to table a comprehensive response to the Report within 150 days.
At 10:38 a.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.
Andrew Bartholomew
Chaplin
Clerk of the Committee