File MS-2-744, Box 268, Folder 11 - Correspondence between Elisabeth Mann Borgese and the Government of Canada (Department of Fisheries and Oceans)

File contains correspondence between Elisabeth Mann Borgese with various Ministers of Fisheries and Oceans (including Bernard Valcourt, John Crosbie, Brian Tobin, and Herb Dhaliwal), and various Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) officials. Topics of discussion include the National Marine Council, the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS), the collapse of the East Coast fisheries in Canada, the Canada Oceans Act,the DFO's Sustainable Development Strategy (includes comments on it by Elisabeth Mann Borgese), invitations to various events, and Mann Borgese's involvement with the Minister's Advisory Council on the Oceans. File also includes material received from the DFO including: Bill C-98 ("An Act respecting the oceans of Canada"), "Deciding Together: A National Oceans Management Strategy," "The Marine Protected Areas Program: Documents and Consultations," DFO's "Sustainable Development Strategy: 2001-2003," promotional material from the DFO (including pamphlets, bookmarks and magnets, mainly to celebrate the International Year of the Oceans), a statement from Canada's Environment Minister David Anderson to the United Nation's Commission on Sustainable Development's Seventh Session on Oceans and Seas, several DFO backgrounders and news releases, and material relating to the establishment of an Arctic website. Also included is an ad from the Chronicle-Herald attacking Minister Tobin.