Ms. Jody Thomas at the Environment and Sustainable Development Committee

On December 8th, 2010. See this statement in context.

December 8th, 2010 / 4:25 p.m.

Deputy Commissioner, Operations, Canadian Coast Guard, Department of Fisheries and Oceans

It's not kilometres of boom; it's metres of boom. I have some stats here for you.

We have approximately 88,000 metres of boom in the five coast guard regions, and 3,000 metres of offshore boom was provided to the U.S. department to respond to the Deepwater Horizon. We're getting it back in March.

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