I think I'll split with Bill.
To the two gentlemen, thanks very much for the presentation.
I found there's a continuum of success with the individual harbour authorities. Some have been able to embrace it and really run with the harbour authorities, while others have their own particular challenges. Can we go back in, on divested harbours? Are there opportunities to help with aspects of authority operation--i.e., governance--and is there any kind of training? Sometimes we get the deal done with the divested harbours and then we let these people loose; some of these divested harbours still have commercial viability, but they're struggling to make it on their own.
Let me ask two questions past that. Some of these divested harbours continue to have a fair amount of commercial activity. Is there any possibility that a fund may be developed, or an envelope of money allocated, to go back and look at divested harbours that continue to be commercially viable? That's the first question.
Again, I think the broad swipes of this program have been very well managed and have been done well, but I can think of one in particular in my riding that may cause DFO to look back and see that it has taken out of service a harbour that, while not essential, would still be a key harbour. It's on a very exposed section of the coastline. It is L'Archeveque Harbour, as a matter of fact, on the east side of Cape Breton; it may have been an error cutting that one loose. Is there a process whereby we may be able to go back and reassess, to see if we can get engaged in a harbour that's been divested already?
So those are the two questions: first, is there an envelope of money for divested harbours? Second, is there a process through which a divested harbour might become operational again? I'll let those two questions go.