Public Accounts committee  Yes, we could certainly do that.

Public Accounts committee  It concerns the purchase of a vessel on the west coast.

Public Accounts committee  Of all of the purchases that we are currently involved with, the first process should cover the first 12. The call for tenders was posted, and we have received bids. This call for tenders includes specifications for the construction of 12 ships. Therefore, if there is a specific

Public Accounts committee  All right, now I understand what you are trying to say. The calls for tenders are partly based on plans and specifications and partly on performance aspects. In fact, we based them on a design that had already been approved. It is not as though we rewrote the ships' specificatio

Public Accounts committee  The operating budget is also being looked at, at the moment, and we're building a business case for that. We do not want to, as we have done in the past, go all out and do all kinds of business cases that are half-baked. We want to do solid cases and bring them when they're ready

Public Accounts committee  If I may, Mr. Chair, I think Mr. Da Pont did initiate such a request. Fisheries and Oceans and the coast guard received an amount of $99 million from the Treasury Board because we did put the business case to the board on capital. That was the core element, as indicated by the Au

Public Accounts committee  I will be very brief, Mr. Chair. I have two comments before I go into the closing remarks. The first is that one of the members requested the regional breakdown in the business plan, and it is actually on page 66, so that the costs, the regional spread, are there. With regard t

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm delighted to be here again today. As you indicated, I am accompanied today by several departmental officials who will be able to help me answer your questions. I'll just spend a few minutes introducing the colleagues we have with us: the associate de

Fisheries committee  I think the premise and some of the science around this needs to be further developed, because all the tools and activities we have done to date have had an impact, up to a point. Now we have to look at additional and more innovative ways of dealing with this. I think the industr

Fisheries committee  I think the report of the auditor for environmental issues asked us to look at developing national frameworks and whether we had a rapid response plan. We have all of the core elements for that. Our plan is to develop frameworks and to help people cope and deal with them; it's n

Fisheries committee  The activities that the industry--

Fisheries committee  That's correct.

Fisheries committee  I'm sorry?

Fisheries committee  The Commissioner and the Minister have ordered an investigation that will be conducted by an independent investigator. This will be a Coast Guard investigation. We have undertaken to review the incident and all of our procedures and to ask this independent investigator—and indepe

Fisheries committee  We intend to make public the findings of the investigation now under way. Our investigator has already met with the victims' families and with some of the crew members. Mr. Da Pont will be able to tell you more about that. For obvious reasons, any observations and findings will b