2017 DFO cutbacks
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IronNoggin
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NEW!
House of Commons Petition.
This one could do what is needed!
https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-1133
Cheers!
Nog
House of Commons Petition.
This one could do what is needed!
https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-1133
Cheers!
Nog
Whole in the Water
Well-Known Member
Just signed it. We need to get thousands more on this forum and elsewhere to do the same!
Got this email from my MP today:
Investments
Last year the Department of Fisheries and Oceans(DFO) and the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) undertook a review of all of its programs and services in order to get a complete and detailed picture of the financial stress that so many of these programs and so many agencies had been under. After years of cuts, years of successive cuts that were so deep the basic day to day operations of DFO and the CCG were in jeopardy.
Our government has made not one but two investments on a scale not seen in generations. The first is the Ocean Protections Plan at $1.5 billion. The second investment of $1.4 billion to rehabilitate the core functions of DFO and the CCG, righting the damage done by previous cuts over so many years.
DFO expects to hire upwards of 900 new employees across the country over the next year, including approximately 200 in British Columbia alone.
CCG will be upgrading and investing in a wide range of communications towers, buoys and maritime radar, as well as improving search and rescue training. DFO will be investing more in ocean science, fisheries management which includes conservation and protection, physical infrastructure and information technology assets needed to carry out the mandate provided by Canadians.
On Salmonid Enhancement Program
The Salmonid Enhancement Program (SEP) supports volunteer efforts of local communities by providing education, tools and funding need to support habitat and rebuild the iconic Pacific salmon stocks.
I have shared with the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and Canadian Coast Guard the concerns I have heard from community members over recent days with respect to some recent changes to the SEP. I take those concerns extremely seriously, as does our government. Preserving and restoring salmon habitat is fundamental to ensuring the Pacific coast has salmon for generations to come.
We remain committed to the conservation of wild Pacific salmon and the broader Salmonid Enhancement Program, which this year, will receive $27 million in federal funding. The SEP continues to be one of the most successful examples of partnership between communities and their government.
On SEP - Habitat Restoration
The Resource Restoration Unit will be phased out over 3 years as habitat restoration capacity in the broader community has greatly increased. We will work with communities to identify where new opportunities for collaboration and funding exist with the recent investments in Budget 2017 and the Oceans Protection Plan.
DFO has for a long time focused on inland waters but emerging new science has also shown we need to mitigate stressors in the ocean environment and focus our work to restore habitat along our ocean coastlines as well. As well as continuing and strengthening the partnerships developed over years with the SEP, we will be turning our attention to also working to strengthen and protect ocean coastlines.
The new Coastal Restoration Fund - $75M over 5 years - will addresses historically degraded areas and will support projects that contribute to coastal restoration plans; support the identification of restoration priorities; and threats to marine species located on Canada's coasts. (Link: http://dfo-mpo.gc.ca/oceans/crf-frc/index-eng.html)
Investments stemming from this fund will help Indigenous people, community based groups, not for profit organizations, academic institutions, researches and industry to work together with us to restore marine environments and protect critical coastline habitat.
As we focus on restoring lost protections in the Fisheries Act, and focus on rebuilding habitat management capacity in DFO, our government will outline better and more significant investments in the months ahead as to how we intend to partner with these community groups to ensure that this important work is not lost and is continued and strengthened for the years ahead.
On SEP - Stream to Sea Program
All of the classroom planning for September of next year will go ahead as planned; we are committed to completing the programming that has already been planned for the upcoming school year. The educational and technical support contracts for this year will go ahead as planned.
DFO will make our SEP related material available online and Fisheries Officers who visit classrooms to explain their role in conservation will continue to do so. We're also committed to transitioning to find the best way possible to continue to deliver these educational programs. The Department will work with its partners over the next year to look at new ways to deliver these programs in the future.
On SEP - Steelhead and Cutthroat Trout
As steelhead and cutthroat trout are managed by the province of BC, we will phase out their production. SEP programs that will continue include: fish production at the 23 large hatchery facilities, fish production through the Community Economic Development Program, as well as numerous Public Involvement Projects that are delivered by community groups and supported by DFO.
Increased Search and Rescue Capacity
Through the Oceans Protection Plan, our government is increasing the Canadian Coast Guard's search and rescue, and environmental response capacity. To increase our search and rescue capacity so vital to Canadians on all of our coasts the Canadian Coast Guard will establish seven new lifeboat stations. Four of these stations will be located in British Columbia - in Victoria, Port Renfrew, Nootka and Hartley Bay.
As part of creating a world leading marine safety system the Coast Guard will create 24/7 emergency coordination capacities within existing regional operation centres - one in Victoria.
Total investments in 2017 will create more job opportunities within the Coast Guard, resulting in up to 15% increase in staffing across the country within the next year. The total number of personnel assigned to the Coast Guard's search and rescue mission in British Columbia will increase over the next three years, resulting in safer waterways for everyone in the region. We expect to see mariners across BC better protected.
Sea Island Dive Team
The CCG understands the value of the specialized service provided by divers, but emergency response is a joint responsibility between various agencies and levels of government. As such, the Department determined that resources from the Sea Island base dive program, the only such program offered throughout the Coast Guard, were better utilized to enhance other search and rescue activities, and decided to discontinue the dive program.
Funding is not being cut, but rather re-directed as our government is re-prioritizing resources to enhance Search and Rescue capacity and response. BC will see four new lifeboats added to the coast, in addition to new radars to cover the blind spots and new radio towers to address the dead zones we've known have been out there for some time.
The diving capability, including penetration dive proficiency, which involves entering wrecked or submerged vessels, vehicles and aircrafts, is not part of the core Search and Rescue mandate and Sea Island is the only such CCG base in the country to provide such specialized service.
The Coast Guard delivers search and rescue services in partnership with other agencies as it is a shared responsibility. Coast Guard has begun exploratory discussions with its search and rescue partners as it transitions out of providing this service, to mirror emergency services that are provided to Canadians in other busy coastal cities, such as Montreal or Halifax.
With last summer's re-opening and modernization of the Kitsilano Coast Guard station, and expanding its mandate to include emergency environmental response, Vancouver harbor is safer than it was two years ago and the entire coast will be safer than it has ever been once all these historic investments will have been made.
Investments
Last year the Department of Fisheries and Oceans(DFO) and the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) undertook a review of all of its programs and services in order to get a complete and detailed picture of the financial stress that so many of these programs and so many agencies had been under. After years of cuts, years of successive cuts that were so deep the basic day to day operations of DFO and the CCG were in jeopardy.
Our government has made not one but two investments on a scale not seen in generations. The first is the Ocean Protections Plan at $1.5 billion. The second investment of $1.4 billion to rehabilitate the core functions of DFO and the CCG, righting the damage done by previous cuts over so many years.
DFO expects to hire upwards of 900 new employees across the country over the next year, including approximately 200 in British Columbia alone.
CCG will be upgrading and investing in a wide range of communications towers, buoys and maritime radar, as well as improving search and rescue training. DFO will be investing more in ocean science, fisheries management which includes conservation and protection, physical infrastructure and information technology assets needed to carry out the mandate provided by Canadians.
On Salmonid Enhancement Program
The Salmonid Enhancement Program (SEP) supports volunteer efforts of local communities by providing education, tools and funding need to support habitat and rebuild the iconic Pacific salmon stocks.
I have shared with the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and Canadian Coast Guard the concerns I have heard from community members over recent days with respect to some recent changes to the SEP. I take those concerns extremely seriously, as does our government. Preserving and restoring salmon habitat is fundamental to ensuring the Pacific coast has salmon for generations to come.
We remain committed to the conservation of wild Pacific salmon and the broader Salmonid Enhancement Program, which this year, will receive $27 million in federal funding. The SEP continues to be one of the most successful examples of partnership between communities and their government.
On SEP - Habitat Restoration
The Resource Restoration Unit will be phased out over 3 years as habitat restoration capacity in the broader community has greatly increased. We will work with communities to identify where new opportunities for collaboration and funding exist with the recent investments in Budget 2017 and the Oceans Protection Plan.
DFO has for a long time focused on inland waters but emerging new science has also shown we need to mitigate stressors in the ocean environment and focus our work to restore habitat along our ocean coastlines as well. As well as continuing and strengthening the partnerships developed over years with the SEP, we will be turning our attention to also working to strengthen and protect ocean coastlines.
The new Coastal Restoration Fund - $75M over 5 years - will addresses historically degraded areas and will support projects that contribute to coastal restoration plans; support the identification of restoration priorities; and threats to marine species located on Canada's coasts. (Link: http://dfo-mpo.gc.ca/oceans/crf-frc/index-eng.html)
Investments stemming from this fund will help Indigenous people, community based groups, not for profit organizations, academic institutions, researches and industry to work together with us to restore marine environments and protect critical coastline habitat.
As we focus on restoring lost protections in the Fisheries Act, and focus on rebuilding habitat management capacity in DFO, our government will outline better and more significant investments in the months ahead as to how we intend to partner with these community groups to ensure that this important work is not lost and is continued and strengthened for the years ahead.
On SEP - Stream to Sea Program
All of the classroom planning for September of next year will go ahead as planned; we are committed to completing the programming that has already been planned for the upcoming school year. The educational and technical support contracts for this year will go ahead as planned.
DFO will make our SEP related material available online and Fisheries Officers who visit classrooms to explain their role in conservation will continue to do so. We're also committed to transitioning to find the best way possible to continue to deliver these educational programs. The Department will work with its partners over the next year to look at new ways to deliver these programs in the future.
On SEP - Steelhead and Cutthroat Trout
As steelhead and cutthroat trout are managed by the province of BC, we will phase out their production. SEP programs that will continue include: fish production at the 23 large hatchery facilities, fish production through the Community Economic Development Program, as well as numerous Public Involvement Projects that are delivered by community groups and supported by DFO.
Increased Search and Rescue Capacity
Through the Oceans Protection Plan, our government is increasing the Canadian Coast Guard's search and rescue, and environmental response capacity. To increase our search and rescue capacity so vital to Canadians on all of our coasts the Canadian Coast Guard will establish seven new lifeboat stations. Four of these stations will be located in British Columbia - in Victoria, Port Renfrew, Nootka and Hartley Bay.
As part of creating a world leading marine safety system the Coast Guard will create 24/7 emergency coordination capacities within existing regional operation centres - one in Victoria.
Total investments in 2017 will create more job opportunities within the Coast Guard, resulting in up to 15% increase in staffing across the country within the next year. The total number of personnel assigned to the Coast Guard's search and rescue mission in British Columbia will increase over the next three years, resulting in safer waterways for everyone in the region. We expect to see mariners across BC better protected.
Sea Island Dive Team
The CCG understands the value of the specialized service provided by divers, but emergency response is a joint responsibility between various agencies and levels of government. As such, the Department determined that resources from the Sea Island base dive program, the only such program offered throughout the Coast Guard, were better utilized to enhance other search and rescue activities, and decided to discontinue the dive program.
Funding is not being cut, but rather re-directed as our government is re-prioritizing resources to enhance Search and Rescue capacity and response. BC will see four new lifeboats added to the coast, in addition to new radars to cover the blind spots and new radio towers to address the dead zones we've known have been out there for some time.
The diving capability, including penetration dive proficiency, which involves entering wrecked or submerged vessels, vehicles and aircrafts, is not part of the core Search and Rescue mandate and Sea Island is the only such CCG base in the country to provide such specialized service.
The Coast Guard delivers search and rescue services in partnership with other agencies as it is a shared responsibility. Coast Guard has begun exploratory discussions with its search and rescue partners as it transitions out of providing this service, to mirror emergency services that are provided to Canadians in other busy coastal cities, such as Montreal or Halifax.
With last summer's re-opening and modernization of the Kitsilano Coast Guard station, and expanding its mandate to include emergency environmental response, Vancouver harbor is safer than it was two years ago and the entire coast will be safer than it has ever been once all these historic investments will have been made.
seascene
Crew Member
"Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Conclusion
Tax expendiTures due to preferential tax treatment such as tax exemptions, tax credits, and loopholes remain a major cost to federal coffers. They will cost Ottawa $202.5 billion in 2018, up from $120.9 billion in 1992 (in 2017 dollars), yet these tax expenditures go unreported in budget documents. " We could use this money for a world of conservation good but for the corrupt tax cheating super rich.
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2017/06/06/Tax-Subsidies-for-the-Rich/
Conclusion
Tax expendiTures due to preferential tax treatment such as tax exemptions, tax credits, and loopholes remain a major cost to federal coffers. They will cost Ottawa $202.5 billion in 2018, up from $120.9 billion in 1992 (in 2017 dollars), yet these tax expenditures go unreported in budget documents. " We could use this money for a world of conservation good but for the corrupt tax cheating super rich.
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2017/06/06/Tax-Subsidies-for-the-Rich/
finaddict
Well-Known Member
Un fricken believable
finaddict
Well-Known Member
"Given the growth within our organization as a result of these new investments, and an expectation that we will be hiring upwards of 900 new employees across the country over the next year," primarily Ottawa where the need for fisheries management is of the utmost priority............
Again I will say it, The feds regardless of party in power do not give 2 sh*ts about BC and their only concern for the entire West is whether they get their royalties for oil production. I think you really have to ask yourself; `what do I really get out of confederation?"
Again I will say it, The feds regardless of party in power do not give 2 sh*ts about BC and their only concern for the entire West is whether they get their royalties for oil production. I think you really have to ask yourself; `what do I really get out of confederation?"
cohochinook
Well-Known Member
Got this email from my MP today:
Investments
Last year the Department of Fisheries and Oceans(DFO) and the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) undertook a review of all of its programs and services in order to get a complete and detailed picture of the financial stress that so many of these programs and so many agencies had been under. After years of cuts, years of successive cuts that were so deep the basic day to day operations of DFO and the CCG were in jeopardy.
Our government has made not one but two investments on a scale not seen in generations. The first is the Ocean Protections Plan at $1.5 billion. The second investment of $1.4 billion to rehabilitate the core functions of DFO and the CCG, righting the damage done by previous cuts over so many years.
DFO expects to hire upwards of 900 new employees across the country over the next year, including approximately 200 in British Columbia alone.
CCG will be upgrading and investing in a wide range of communications towers, buoys and maritime radar, as well as improving search and rescue training. DFO will be investing more in ocean science, fisheries management which includes conservation and protection, physical infrastructure and information technology assets needed to carry out the mandate provided by Canadians.
On Salmonid Enhancement Program
The Salmonid Enhancement Program (SEP) supports volunteer efforts of local communities by providing education, tools and funding need to support habitat and rebuild the iconic Pacific salmon stocks.
I have shared with the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and Canadian Coast Guard the concerns I have heard from community members over recent days with respect to some recent changes to the SEP. I take those concerns extremely seriously, as does our government. Preserving and restoring salmon habitat is fundamental to ensuring the Pacific coast has salmon for generations to come.
We remain committed to the conservation of wild Pacific salmon and the broader Salmonid Enhancement Program, which this year, will receive $27 million in federal funding. The SEP continues to be one of the most successful examples of partnership between communities and their government.
On SEP - Habitat Restoration
The Resource Restoration Unit will be phased out over 3 years as habitat restoration capacity in the broader community has greatly increased. We will work with communities to identify where new opportunities for collaboration and funding exist with the recent investments in Budget 2017 and the Oceans Protection Plan.
DFO has for a long time focused on inland waters but emerging new science has also shown we need to mitigate stressors in the ocean environment and focus our work to restore habitat along our ocean coastlines as well. As well as continuing and strengthening the partnerships developed over years with the SEP, we will be turning our attention to also working to strengthen and protect ocean coastlines.
The new Coastal Restoration Fund - $75M over 5 years - will addresses historically degraded areas and will support projects that contribute to coastal restoration plans; support the identification of restoration priorities; and threats to marine species located on Canada's coasts. (Link: http://dfo-mpo.gc.ca/oceans/crf-frc/index-eng.html)
Investments stemming from this fund will help Indigenous people, community based groups, not for profit organizations, academic institutions, researches and industry to work together with us to restore marine environments and protect critical coastline habitat.
As we focus on restoring lost protections in the Fisheries Act, and focus on rebuilding habitat management capacity in DFO, our government will outline better and more significant investments in the months ahead as to how we intend to partner with these community groups to ensure that this important work is not lost and is continued and strengthened for the years ahead.
On SEP - Stream to Sea Program
All of the classroom planning for September of next year will go ahead as planned; we are committed to completing the programming that has already been planned for the upcoming school year. The educational and technical support contracts for this year will go ahead as planned.
DFO will make our SEP related material available online and Fisheries Officers who visit classrooms to explain their role in conservation will continue to do so. We're also committed to transitioning to find the best way possible to continue to deliver these educational programs. The Department will work with its partners over the next year to look at new ways to deliver these programs in the future.
On SEP - Steelhead and Cutthroat Trout
As steelhead and cutthroat trout are managed by the province of BC, we will phase out their production. SEP programs that will continue include: fish production at the 23 large hatchery facilities, fish production through the Community Economic Development Program, as well as numerous Public Involvement Projects that are delivered by community groups and supported by DFO.
The cut to Salmon in the Schools program makes absolutely no sense. Using our already depleted number of DFO Fisheries officers to go in the classrooms and explain their role in conservation, instead of being out in the field is ridiculous! Thousands of BC school children take the Salmonids in the Classroom/Classroom Aquarium program every year for over 30 years. They also have marked literally thousands of storm drains, in the storm drain marking program. As adults, many of those recall the classroom aquarium program more than anything else they tell us, during their school years. The parents of all these children participate in it too. Many "new" Canadians learn about Canada's salmonid resource and its long-standing Canadian Conservation ethic, as children having recently arrived in Canada, their parents and extended families too. Cutting this program is saying that salmon not important and leads to lack of engagement by our young people. DFO needs to restore this funding.
When DFO could no longer fund its own projects and was/is reliant on community groups applying hat in hand to outside funding agencies for grants to do critical habitat works and maintenance. Most community groups are absolutely dependant on DFO staff expertise and experience to carry out the actual works. The Restoration Resource Unit of the Lower Fraser Area is involved with about 50 projects/year worth over $5M (not all are constructed by DFO but the initial support for these projects is leveraged up to 10x. RRU actively maintains over 200 projects in our area that produce over 4 million fish/year, and they are all wild. The RRU are the "fixers and caretakers" of wild salmon habitat, working on at-risk salmon stocks and their depleted habitat. This work aligns with implementing Wild Salmon Policy and Cohen Commission objectives. Without RRU, DFO is no longer meeting these objectives of DFO’s Core Mandate? The Resource Restoration Unit needs to be brought back and fully funded by DFO.
cohochinook
Well-Known Member
Signed, thanks Nog!
marbledmurrelet
Active Member
SIGNED AND CONFIRMED!
think buddy is on global tonite trying to reach out to the public.
lots of talk about lost education program (great), but not much talk regarding the loss of the habitat program. without people watching the loss and improving stream/rivers where will salmon spawn? i think there was 32 habitat projects lost just on the squamish.
with the steelhead program how long till the province closes the rivers to fishing for them? example would be the Vedder, without hatchery support that run wont last very long. there was a study few years back which found the avg steelhead on the vedder being caught 8x a day.
the province is reaching out to take on this burden from the feds but cant as they do not have the spawning or grow facilities.
Not a lot of talk about the new developing OPP. you would think one would be bitching at the feds about why the fisheries programs are suffering to support the OPP.
idk just been talking to few people that have been affected by this and wondering whats next? is the gov. saying f'it to natural spawning? is the coastline going to ranching like our neighbors? if so no need for school enhancement programs as it will be more of a history program. "this is how fish used to spawn, now we just cut them open and dump then into a bucket"
next 4 years should be interesting, wonder if a seal cull is in the future to calm fisher people down and try to repair the coastline
lots of talk about lost education program (great), but not much talk regarding the loss of the habitat program. without people watching the loss and improving stream/rivers where will salmon spawn? i think there was 32 habitat projects lost just on the squamish.
with the steelhead program how long till the province closes the rivers to fishing for them? example would be the Vedder, without hatchery support that run wont last very long. there was a study few years back which found the avg steelhead on the vedder being caught 8x a day.
the province is reaching out to take on this burden from the feds but cant as they do not have the spawning or grow facilities.
Not a lot of talk about the new developing OPP. you would think one would be bitching at the feds about why the fisheries programs are suffering to support the OPP.
idk just been talking to few people that have been affected by this and wondering whats next? is the gov. saying f'it to natural spawning? is the coastline going to ranching like our neighbors? if so no need for school enhancement programs as it will be more of a history program. "this is how fish used to spawn, now we just cut them open and dump then into a bucket"
next 4 years should be interesting, wonder if a seal cull is in the future to calm fisher people down and try to repair the coastline
Cuba Libre
Well-Known Member
This guys statement is total BS---cut the dive rescue team ? Why? People will die -- having a dive rescue team is like having a fire department. You hope you will never need it-- but--damn-- its nice to have it when all hell breaks loose. And these guys just dont sit around waiting for a call-- they are part of the CCG team in the area and do other duties as well.
Get rid of the Resource Restoration Unit ???? Totally short sighted and illogical. Those are the bios, engineers and techs that supply technical direction to Stream Keepers for their programs such as stream monitoring, hatchery fish augmentation, stream restoration etc... they also work with other agencies such as BC Hydro , Natures Trust, Highways Dept, Pacific Salmon Society, municipal governments to protect streams and riparian habitat, and the list goes on...
Now-- the final insult from the Liberals---- get rid of those pesky school education programs that over 35,000 kids go through each year. The Salmonids in the Classroom program and its newer reincarnation, the Stream to Sea program is recognized around the western world as a a leader in environmental education. With Climate Change heading at us like a tornado, the kids that have gone through the program are the next generation of stewards to deal with the mistakes that past generations have made. Salmon are our "canary in the coal mine " With the education provided by this program , we just might have chance... The demand from the BC teachers has led to hiring a few dedicated individuals called Education Coodinators that are seasonal part timers that set up the education program to assist the educators. They get paid peanuts, but everyone I have worked with or met, has been totally dedicated to helping the kids and their teachers. But the BS that DFO is throwing from Ottawa is incredible. "We have heard you!!!!! We will continue with the program until the end of the year! " CRAP! This is a program that deserves to be given assurance that it will CONTINUE to be available to our BC children---- not one year extention.
Finally-- its has been fashionable to crap all over volunteers programs that produce salmon ( and a few trout) through their volunteer- driven hatcheries. I am sure that there are some in Ottawa that have NO idea the dedication these guys and gals have to our salmon resources . Nor do they "get" that an addition 50 fish in a once barren stream is a occurrence to celebrate! The few DFO Community Advisors in BC have not been heard ( at least down south) and I'll bet that there is a gag order to keep them quite. There IS a place for organizations like Sooke, Courtenay F&G, Oyster River Enhancement Society, Tahsis Enhancement , Stuart Island -Gillard Pass Phillips River chinook Program Sayward Fish and Game , Kanaka Creek and Alouette River community programs. and a whole bunch of other groups, community associations ( Have not even touched on the good work being done in the Northern part of our province
MP Ron McKinnon is drinking the Party Cool Aid.. call him out on it. And while you are at it, let Leblanc know that you dont buys the BS.
Get rid of the Resource Restoration Unit ???? Totally short sighted and illogical. Those are the bios, engineers and techs that supply technical direction to Stream Keepers for their programs such as stream monitoring, hatchery fish augmentation, stream restoration etc... they also work with other agencies such as BC Hydro , Natures Trust, Highways Dept, Pacific Salmon Society, municipal governments to protect streams and riparian habitat, and the list goes on...
Now-- the final insult from the Liberals---- get rid of those pesky school education programs that over 35,000 kids go through each year. The Salmonids in the Classroom program and its newer reincarnation, the Stream to Sea program is recognized around the western world as a a leader in environmental education. With Climate Change heading at us like a tornado, the kids that have gone through the program are the next generation of stewards to deal with the mistakes that past generations have made. Salmon are our "canary in the coal mine " With the education provided by this program , we just might have chance... The demand from the BC teachers has led to hiring a few dedicated individuals called Education Coodinators that are seasonal part timers that set up the education program to assist the educators. They get paid peanuts, but everyone I have worked with or met, has been totally dedicated to helping the kids and their teachers. But the BS that DFO is throwing from Ottawa is incredible. "We have heard you!!!!! We will continue with the program until the end of the year! " CRAP! This is a program that deserves to be given assurance that it will CONTINUE to be available to our BC children---- not one year extention.
Finally-- its has been fashionable to crap all over volunteers programs that produce salmon ( and a few trout) through their volunteer- driven hatcheries. I am sure that there are some in Ottawa that have NO idea the dedication these guys and gals have to our salmon resources . Nor do they "get" that an addition 50 fish in a once barren stream is a occurrence to celebrate! The few DFO Community Advisors in BC have not been heard ( at least down south) and I'll bet that there is a gag order to keep them quite. There IS a place for organizations like Sooke, Courtenay F&G, Oyster River Enhancement Society, Tahsis Enhancement , Stuart Island -Gillard Pass Phillips River chinook Program Sayward Fish and Game , Kanaka Creek and Alouette River community programs. and a whole bunch of other groups, community associations ( Have not even touched on the good work being done in the Northern part of our province
MP Ron McKinnon is drinking the Party Cool Aid.. call him out on it. And while you are at it, let Leblanc know that you dont buys the BS.
GLG
Well-Known Member
Many of the new members on this board may not know this member. Cuba Libre has been active in our community for a very long time and knows what he is talking about. We should all heed what he is saying. Sign the petition.
House of Commons Petition.
https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-1133
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Well said Cube Libre. Just responded back to my MP and included some of your golden nuggets 
in my letter. I will also send a copy of my letter to a few other MPs on the mainland. Best is for us to start organizing events and increase public awareness. More signatures on the petition would mean more bargaining power for our BC kids.
in my letter. I will also send a copy of my letter to a few other MPs on the mainland. Best is for us to start organizing events and increase public awareness. More signatures on the petition would mean more bargaining power for our BC kids.
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IronNoggin
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Give Them HELL for me Bones!!
Cheers,
Nog
Cheers,
Nog
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