Clifford Small
- Born
- August 29, 1970
- Education
- College of the North Atlantic, electrical engineering technology
- Career
- Engineering design, fishing business, three restaurants
- Political Experience
- Elected MP for Central Newfoundland in 2021 and 2025. Shadow Minister for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard Shadow Minister.
- Notable
- First Conservative MP from Newfoundland and Labrador since Peter Penashue resigned in 2013. First Conservative MP elected in Newfoundland since Fabian Manning in 2006. Endorsed Pierre Poilievre in the 2022 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election. Grew up in Wild Cove, White Bay.
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Clifford Small won with 21,975 votes (54.1%)
Total votes cast: 40,636
Do you expect to see it? Do you think this study could spur him on to keep his election promise?
Thank you very much.
Prime Minister In the spring election, themade the comment—in fact, he made it in St. John's, Newfoundland—that basically the decision-making under his government would be based on what he was hearing at the wharves. Have you seen any of that in terms of mackerel?
We only have a few seconds. Mr. DesRoches, you were at the AMAC meetings this year. Is that correct?
I will get to him again.
That's where they look for the larvae.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. My first question is for Mr. Barlow. Mr. Barlow, on Monday we had Mr. Vigneault here, who is basically the director of DFO science. He told us about mature year classes of mackerel that are capable of reproducing. He almost painted a picture of them being non-existent and that the younger year classes were increasing somehow. I don't know where their parents are, but [more]
In the last mackerel report, which was published in the winter of 2023, there was a recommendation for Canada to match a quota equivalent to what the U.S. is catching. Over the last couple of years, Canada has caught 440 metric tons of mackerel for bait. In the same time, the United States harvested 15,000 metric tons. What do you think of that?
Have the sightings been strong? How would you compare what you're seeing on the water now with what you saw when you were a boy, when mackerel were plentiful?
Thank you, Mr. Arsenault. Now I'll go to Mr. DesRoches. We had DFO's director of science here on Monday. He talked about the sightings of mackerel on top of the water. He said that plentiful sightings of mackerel on top of the water is not a true indicator of a plentiful resource. You've fished mackerel all your life. If you were looking for an indicator of mackerel, what would you be looking [more]
How many ENGOs attended the AMAC meeting this year?
Prime Minister Tell me about the influence the ENGOs have compared to the input that harvesters have with their on-the-water experience, which thesaid he was going to listen to when he campaigned in April. How's that going?