Department of Fisheries and Oceans undermining minister’s mandate

Our elected officials deserve better service from the bureaucracy that is supposed to serve them. At the same time, one wonders when, or if, elected officials are going to take on the task of righting the wrongs of that bureaucracy.

Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier faces a daunting task. Will she try to take on the long-overdue reform of her department, or leave that mess for the next fisheries minister? writes Karen Wristen. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY KAREN WRISTEN

February 22, 2024

Watching the Department of Fisheries and Oceans manage the fisheries minister these days is a bit like binge-watching old episodes of the BBC sitcom Yes, Minister!—except that the Canadian version is rapidly becoming a tragedy for wild salmon.

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