Fisheries committee  I couldn't speak to the short-term future. As you know, that issue is being looked at by the Senate committee.

Fisheries committee  The budgets for staffed lighthouses have not changed this year. They remain substantially the same. We can take out the numbers, but substantially there has been no change there.

Fisheries committee  With respect to the safety and planning for any contingencies around offshore oil platforms, they are with the National Energy Board and Natural Resources Canada in the first instance. The coast guard maintains the capability to respond to ship-source oil pollution, and of cour

Fisheries committee  Just to update you on that, we expect the design contract in 2011.

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. To update the committee and the honourable member on the current status of our major vessel builds, I'd like to confirm that the midshore patrol vessels, the nine midshore patrol vessels, 142-foot, for conservation, protection, and security are