Fisheries committee  Well, I would only go back to what we said earlier in terms of available funding. When you have over 20% of the core fishing harbours that aren't maintained to a certain standard, in our judgment that's where the attention needs to be focused.

Fisheries committee  Let me try to address your earlier question on the funding. I believe, if we look at the capital, first of all, we lost $42 million of program integrity funding, part of which was dedicated to small craft harbours. As I mentioned in the presentation this morning, we are cautiously optimistic, subject again to Treasury Board approval, that we're going to get additional capital, which will put the small craft harbours program back up to where it was in the period you referred to.

Fisheries committee  No.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Cuzner. I would just make a couple of general comments and ask Mr. Bergeron to respond in more detail. As you may be aware, we do have an excellent relationship with the harbour authorities. We meet with them on a regular basis. In that way, we provide to them a bit of a training opportunity.

Fisheries committee  No; I think we're basically funding that from departmental resources. With respect to the fund, as you saw from the funding presentation, this is a cash-starved program, if I can put it bluntly, so there isn't any kind of fund available to perhaps look at divested harbours that may still have commercial viability--although, at the same time, we're trying to promote more synergy with local industry and municipalities to try to increase the economic value of divested harbours, so in that regard there may be some potential in the future.

Fisheries committee  Yes, I'll respect the timeframe, Mr. Chair. Thank you very much. It's a pleasure for me and my colleagues to be here this morning to talk about what we think is a very successful program, albeit an underfunded one, and I think that will become clear through my presentation. We will do our best to address any of your questions.