This has been pretty well covered, but the biggest thing is the most restrictive licence confining you to that. So many times people can't afford to give up that licence and have to build a boat according to the most restrictive licence they give. Gary gave a prime example of it.
In the swordfishery, we have a lot of these 44' 11"s--lobster boats--and they cannot go over that. They're doing the same thing that those of us in the swordfishery were doing in 55-footers and 60-footers. Are we helping safety?
I just came from Ottawa. From what I heard in Ottawa in the last three days, they just set safety back ten years, in my opinion as a fisherman, because we will find a way to get around it. We're really good at that. We always have been. So it's a matter of which illegal is the most evil. That's what it boils down to. Am I illegal not to do my steamship inspection, or am I illegal after I've done my steamship inspection and I say I can't use the boat from December 1 to March 31 on account of icing? Which is the most illegal? I'll put the $10,000 in my pocket that it's going to cost me to do the stability and take a gamble.
So I honestly think Transport Canada is setting safety back here.
Thank you.