Thank you to all of our witnesses.
I want to begin by also expressing my condolences to Ms. MacNaughton for the loss of her husband.
I want to assure you, Kathy, that I believe there is unanimous support here around the table for these EI sickness benefits and the extension of those. In fact, some of us had asked for EI sickness benefits to be extended even longer and had expressed that in the House, so I think you're going to find that this budget and what it contains on that issue will have full support. Although some of us may not be able to support the budget in its entirety because of other reasons, on that one issue I want to assure you that I believe we're all on the same page.
I want to go to Minister Fox for a moment.
You've made it very clear that you're looking for a long-term strategic approach to marine infrastructure so that it can help drive economic growth in your region of the country. By the way, that's not so much different from my neck of the woods. On the west coast, we have our own challenges with respect to our fisheries sector and declining salmon stocks. We're all scrambling in trying to address these very immediate emergent issues that need to be addressed.
You talked about this long-term infrastructure plan. I'd like to know what that would look like, because I believe you've signalled that a plan had been presented to the government some time ago but hasn't been acted on, certainly not in its entirety. Do you want to expand on that a bit more?