Thank you, witnesses.
Thank you, Mayor Payne. I appreciate your joining us today.
Parson's Pond is representative of so many rural communities across the country in that it may be very small, but it remains very important to Canada. It is also an access point to a huge part of the rest of the country. The good news is that I can't imagine relocating Parson's Pond because, to my knowledge, there's no other way to get to the rest of the Northern Peninsula.
In 2022, hurricane Fiona hit the western coast of Newfoundland. Port aux Basques, in particular, was heavily hit.
I'm curious about how far up that went. Did that impact your community? This was now, roughly, four years ago. I'm curious as to the state of your communities as they build back and pick up from hurricane Fiona.