Fisheries committee  Anything we got done.... There was a fellow I knew pretty well in the province and he was allowed to spend $500 at a time, so if I had a little project that was worth $1,500 he'd write me three cheques for $500 so he wouldn't get in trouble. That's basically how we ran it. The pr

Fisheries committee  Prior to 1987. At that time, in 1987, we probably had about 27 or 28 smaller boats, and the facility that had been worked on was still okay then, but 20 years have gone by since then.

Fisheries committee  Maybe I could ask you a question. What would you think would be reasonable in the last 20 years to have spent on a harbour?

Fisheries committee  Like Annandale--what would be a reasonable amount of money to put into that harbour to keep it...?

Fisheries committee  Just at our harbour alone there are roughly 36 to 37 that are full-time fishermen. There are probably two or three different speedboats that come in and may stay for the summer, but where we are situated there is not a big transient bunch of vessels that come in and out. We're no

Fisheries committee  The way it has to work is that you need to have so much money in the bank. Let's say this east wall, which is a sore point with us, collapses; you have to have some money or they won't even look at you. So we've saved up $50,000 in the bank now. We're waiting. If this east wall h

Fisheries committee  It's roughly between $350 and $450 annually for each boat.

Fisheries committee  In total, yes.

Fisheries committee  Then we pay our land taxes, our light bills, and everything else.

Fisheries committee  We find that if we get other people involved it always creates confusion, because they're not stakeholders. We put a waste oil receptacle down at the wharf, and then somehow we ended up having everybody's oil coming to the wharf. We tried garbage bins down there once, and then ev

Fisheries committee  Do you mean for all harbour authorities?

Fisheries committee  Oh, yes. There is a harbour authority--

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  It's not so much a provincial thing as it is a maritime thing. I've never actually sat down with just the provincial harbours in particular, but I've sat down several times with the main group, which is the maritimes.

Fisheries committee  Perhaps I can say one thing here, Mr. Chair, on a problem that we face. Imagine back, if you can, to when you were just a little fella, to when you used to walk down to the store on the corner and buy something for a quarter.