Thank you, Mr. Chair, and welcome to all. I'm certainly glad you are here and giving us this opportunity. I'll maybe just try to slip around as quickly as I can to cover a number of topics.
Mr. Bird, I'd like you to know that I do appreciate your thoughts on allowing willing individuals to donate through more effective use of our tax system. I still believe in some of those old analogies of keeping your kids in sports and out of the courts. It's just an opportunity to recognize that in a lot of cases, dollars spent on social applications in some particular place is money well invested, and it's certainly a heck of a lot less costly than dealing with the results afterwards.
Many years ago I was a police officer dealing with the narcotics trade, so I well recognize just how important prevention is. So thank you very, very kindly for those thoughts.
Slipping over to the dredging issue, could I have a bit more clarity from Mr. Scurr or others who would like to participate? To what depth is it necessary to take the side channel to be acceptable at low tide?