Fisheries committee  We actually have a fee schedule. We have a list of the traditional Stonehaven fishers, those who have fished there forever, since the implementation of the harbour authority. They pay $12 a foot per year. We also have a separate amount for transient boats. This would include peop

Fisheries committee  And we don't charge per pound either. The boat would be there as a transient, in and out, and they'd be charged for that.

Fisheries committee  From my perspective, I don't necessarily want to change things, and maybe that's because I like the idea that we are running it like a business and it is working okay for Stonehaven. Down the road maybe there will need to be a grouping of wharves and a wharf manager who basically

Fisheries committee  Some of them have to be dredged every year.

Fisheries committee  First of all, I want you to know that this is not what I do for a living. I am also a volunteer, but I actually work for the federal government.

Fisheries committee  I'm a manager of a Service Canada call centre here in Bathurst, for EI and ISP. My husband and my son are fishermen. I have been involved in this, and was asked to be involved, as a community rep since the very beginning. I am so committed to that wharf that I would never walk

Fisheries committee  I don't know.

Fisheries committee  I don't know. If I can speak to your question about playing the game, we've also received money, like Mr. Arseneau, and usually it's in advance of an election year. We have done everything in Stonehaven exactly the way the small craft harbours people asked us to do it. We have

Fisheries committee  We submit paperwork to DFO, but we're able to contract out. We have to follow the process that they've laid out. We need to go and get two or three bids. We function exactly the same way as they would, but we handle it; we pay it out. I basically bill them.

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  I'll comment and then maybe Tom will add to it, because we sort of have a different opinion.

Fisheries committee  I've been involved with the harbour authority since it started in 1996. I believe that for the minor work, absolutely, there's an improvement, because less than $50,000 we're allowed to administer ourselves. So we go out and we get estimates and costs and we do the work and basic

Fisheries committee  If you were running a project and you were laying cement, would you do that in the middle of winter, where you needed to plow a road about ten times this winter? You have to set up heat. The cost overrun is....

Fisheries committee  I'm saying that occasionally the government might not do things as well as the private sector.

Fisheries committee  I'm going to give my presentation in English because I can speak English faster than I can French. Tom and I represent Stonehaven Harbour Authority, which is located between Bathurst and Caraquet small harbour. Stonehaven Harbour Authority was formed and incorporated in 1996 wit