UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA PO BOX 2400 STN CSC VICTORIA, BC V8W 3H7 CANADA

MAUREEN MALONEY, Q.C. DIRECTOR INSTITUTE FOR DISPUTE RESOLUTION

March 26, 2001 

I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude, on behalf of the Review Team and the Institute for Dispute Resolution, to all the individuals and groups that participated in the Institute’s Independent Review of Improved Decision Making for Fisheries and Oceans Canada.  We greatly appreciate your input and could not have developed our Preliminary Recommendations without the insights you offered. 

Please find enclosed a copy of our Preliminary Recommendations, developed on the basis of our Phase 2 meetings with governments, stakeholder groups and the public.  We would now like to seek further feedback from you with regard to these preliminary recommendations.  We would like to emphasize that the recommendations enclosed are our initial thinking and depending on the feedback we receive over the next three weeks, they could be changed. 

If you would like to provide feedback on the Preliminary Recommendations, you can do so by contacting Jennifer Ellis by phone at (250) 472-0832, fax at (250) 472-0831 or email at review@uvic.ca.  Alternatively, you can mail your comments to the Institute for Dispute Resolution at the above address.  The deadline for providing comments on the Preliminary Recommendations is April 13, 2001. 

Based on your feedback to these Preliminary Recommendations, the Institute will prepare its Final Recommendations.  It is anticipated that the Final Recommendations will be released at the end of April.

Yours sincerely,  
 

Original Signed by: 

Maureen Maloney, QC
Director
Institute for Dispute Resolution 

Review phone (250) 472-0832, E-mail:review@uvic.ca