Fisheries committee  To come back to what you were saying—

Fisheries committee  I'd like to come back to what you were saying about giving an equal share of the $120,000 to each of the sea ports. As Mr. Arseneau said, $120,000 would suit small craft harbours like ours, but I'm sure that for Mr. Mallet, $120,000—

Fisheries committee  Exactly. That's what you need and it's understandable. That's the difference.

Fisheries committee  As Ms. Payne stated, we have to manage our small sea port like a business. What is so exhausting is that we begin by volunteering our time and after having spent a considerable amount of time drawing up a project, when we ask for the funding the answer is always the same: there i

Fisheries committee  We're talking about small ports. What is the difference between a small sea port and a major sea port. Here we have small sea ports? Our port is viewed as a small one. The one beside us should be considered a major port, I feel.

Fisheries committee  There. I got my answer but my question was on budgets. Our needs are the same but on a different scale. As Mr. Arseneau stated earlier, different budgets are granted to small ports with less than 15 vessels. The major ports receive millions of dollars. We think it would be much m

Fisheries committee  We don't really have a problem with rocks but more with silting. It is actually mud and it accumulates year by year. Dredging certainly has to be done more often than in places where there is rock.

Fisheries committee  I'm going to give the floor to Mr. Philippe Ferguson. We belong to the same port authority, in Tracadie.