by Alexandra Morton

On March 17 the Director General of DFO Science for the Pacific region was put on the stand at the Cohen Commission to answer questions about a Ministerial memo regarding a virus that may be killing large numbers of Fraser sockeye. 

 

The transcripts will eventually be available from the Cohen Commission website, but in the meantime here are my notes: http://alexandramorton.typepad.com/

It was a disheartening display of avoidance behavior following in the footsteps that brought us the east coast cod collapse.

Iam deeply grateful to Greg McDade and Lisa Glowacki, the lawyers that represent me at the Commission.   I am also thankful to First Nations lawyer, Brenda Gaertner who brought a powerful sense of outrage that DFO has not informed First Nations on this potentially very serious virus.

We have a long way to go, but these lawyers were a storm over passive waters. 

Alexandra Morton