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Key letters, official announcements, documents on COSEWIC, listing process, etc. Format: html unless noted.
Date (ymd) | from | to (many are extensively CC'd) | description |
19970404 | William Rowat, DFO | Cosewic members or their supervisors | Rowat's letter: DFO lobbying COSEWIC members |
19980204 | KNIB | Cosewic | 1998 Status Report on Atlantic Cod in Canada (~100
pages), as submitted. |
19980410 | KNIB | Cosewic members | cover letter, describing the unauthorised and undeclared changes that COSEWIC illegally made to the 1998 Report before the meeting. (They also tried to change it after the meeting, see above) |
20000428 | KNIB | PM Chretien | "Are rules made to be broken?" -- re mischief by DFO & COSEWIC |
20000501 | KNIB | Press | press release about letter 20000428, covering copy |
20000609 | Anderson | KNIB | empty reply to letter to Chretien; a brush-off showing unconcern for administrative conduct (turns out it was drafted/approved by Cosewic, the agency that was subject of the complaint) |
20030502 | KNIB | Minister Thibault (DFO) | congratulating on a management decision, commenting on OSP |
(20040303) | Anderson surprises environmental community with unanticipated 'consultation' (delay) process that can be seen as an end-run around the stated objectives of SARA itself. | ||
20040514 | KNIB | SARA | (response to Anderson 20040303 consultation announcement that surprised the environmental community) |
20041106 | KNIB Telegram Forum article [scanned original, or longer html version with SARA references] | ||
20041118 | KNIB | DFO | response to DFO's cleverly misnamed "SARA" consultations of 2004 |
20050208 | KNIB | PM Martin | Irregularities in process; caution against denying a Listing (copy is in Appendices of 20050603) |
KNIB |
PM Martin | Issues stand following failure of government to rebut: Irregularities in process; caution against denying a Listing; opportunities from a Listing (Appendices include previous letter 20050208 Bell to PM, DFO response to that, KNIB rebuttal of DFO response) | |
20050929 | KNIB | FOPO 048 | Presentation to House of Commons Standing Committee
on Fisheries (written, FOPO 048
or local
copy,
links
to FOPO Witness Evidence). |
20051128 | Shorter (DFO website) announcement of Cabinet's decision not to List | ||
20051214 | Longer (SARA website) announcement of Cabinet's decision not to List | ||
20060108 | KNIB | PM, Ministers | Re recent announcement of denial of Listing |
Links...
DFO's 2004 "SARA" consultations/hearings (a gambit in DFO's campaign against any Listing that might tend to throw light on mismanagement)
chronology (Cod, Report, Cosewic, shenanigans)