Fisheries committee  We'd need millions of dollars.

Fisheries committee  Yes. Our harbour authority leases 26 off-loading sites to buyers. There are charges involved. A site brings in money.

Fisheries committee  The mission of the harbour authorities is to manage facilities at the best possible cost for the users. We forecast how much money we need to set aside to make minor repairs, which enables us to know how much we should be billing users.

Fisheries committee  We invoice the buyer. That may cost approximately $1,300 per off-loading site.

Fisheries committee  In answer to your question about ACOA, I would like to ask you whether you have made an application under this program. Try it to see what happens. The number of administrative hurdles is incredible and it is discouraging. At one point, we wanted to set up a tourist project on ou

Fisheries committee  I can answer your question. It is measured in metres of boat length.

Fisheries committee  No. According to my calculations, we closed the first section for five years. The Shippagan wharf is divided into three sections, two of which were functional. We therefore had to redirect our clients to those two sections and overload them. We carried out the project and I can g

Fisheries committee  That is a good question. Our harbour authority is at Shippagan. There are other nearby harbour authorities, including one in particular that is very close by. The people in charge there did exactly what was just mentioned: they just washed their hands of everything. They came t

Fisheries committee  Yes. I perhaps did not have time to go into the question. The harbour authorities, the public servants and the harbour authority program provide us with liability insurance. If a tourist using our facilities is injured and sues us, we do have liability insurance. But I was re

Fisheries committee  If you do the math, you will see that there are large sums involved. Recently, we repaired one third of our facilities. The total contract amounted to $5.2 million. That's a lot of money, but we should remember that the useful life of these wharves is 40 years. If you divide the

Fisheries committee  Good morning. My name is Camille-André Mallet and I am the Director General of the Shippagan Port Authority in New Brunswick. To begin, I want to make clear that the port authority program is a good one. As for the implementation, Fisheries and Oceans Canada staff responsible f