Thank you, Chairman.
I am a little troubled by the motion. Perhaps the problem is mine as much as it is anybody else's.
To be quite honest, Mr. Chairman, I don't know what the Canadian Coast Guard's cost recovery policy is with respect to the north. We've had a couple of weeks to investigate that; perhaps I should have, but I haven't. I don't know how those costs would compare to the costs elsewhere in the country either. I simply don't know what they entail.
There may be some at the table who can fill me in on this, and I'd be happy if they were to do it now, because I certainly don't have the information. But I can't vote in favour of something when I don't know what I'm voting for or what I'm voting against.
There is the issue of what these costs are, how they compare to the rest of the country, and if these costs that are imposed in this respect are somehow compensated for elsewhere. I don't know that. The issue deserves a better look before we have the vote on it.