Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks for joining us today, Commissioner.
You know, with regard to this whole section on Arctic marine navigation, there are things we've talked about in Parliament on numerous occasions about the charting and the coast guard. I want to go to the coast guard, especially this icebreaking capacity. Right around the world, we're seeing a lot of icebreakers being built by a variety of countries. In Canada certainly we're concerned about the fact that although we know the name of an icebreaker that's supposed to be built, we haven't yet seen the hull laid. The name was announced almost six years ago.
Did you do an analysis of the tasks that are currently performed by the icebreaking fleet of Canada, of what would be their ongoing tasks that would take the scheduling of these crafts throughout the Arctic so that we would have a better understanding of how they're being used; of the fact that we're obviously going to be short of a number of ships, for refits or for decommissioning, in the next five to ten years; and of whether these schedules that have been laid out today could be adequately performed with the fleet that would be available five years from now?