I think the federal government in Canada has to, if it wants to continue with what I would call “small” small craft harbours, although maybe not in the same numbers, because it's a lot of money to maintain a lot of small harbours, as opposed to rationalizing and consolidating them....
Probably the federal government should continue to play a role in funding. As much as possible it should be long-term funding, such as a trust type of fund that is depoliticized as far as possible and for which the local authorities have to put up some of the capital funding. I know that's going to be difficult for some of them, but maybe then at the local level there will be some pressure to consolidate the numbers of harbours. I have travelled on the east coast and have been on one side of the bay and there's a small harbour and a jetty; I drive less than a mile and there's another little jetty and a little fish thing, and I think, “Oh, both of those are DFO's; why do we have two, when one would do?”