I would like to make maybe a bit of a preamble.
Because our budget is rather small, Public Works and Government Services Canada doesn't have perhaps we'd say the economies of scale to have a good network of marine engineers on staff. So this is posing a particular problem to our region. Of course, if our budget were increased, that would help.
So that gives us an incentive to work more with the harbour authorities. In all cases of course we make sure we have good plans and specifications and contract documents in advance, and we enter into a contract and we treat them as a contractor. So if you do the job, then we pay you. And we'll help them, using whatever means appropriate, in-house staff, if we have to hire a consultant or even Public Works to go out and make sure they're doing the job right. We do not pay them until the job is done to the plans and specs.