Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd also like to express my sentiment in your passion to protect Stephenville Airport. Could you please extend the same courtesy to Gander? We would appreciate it, sir, and put you on a pedestal for it.
I want to ask a question that ties into airports as well as small craft harbours. The government divests these properties for the sake of local ownership and so on, but the constant complaint we get is that the government doesn't pay when it continues to use those services. For example, the coast guard arrives in Botwood. It anchors up for a couple of days and it doesn't pay the fee you would put upon the private sector. A military plane lands in Gander and it doesn't pay. The government is compelling these people to search for revenue streams but at the same time is a customer that is, if I could put it mildly, delinquent.
There are other countries, from my understanding, that do provide grants to, say, airports, marine infrastructure--I don't know--for the sake of the emergency services they provide, or for whatever services are required in operations. Are there other countries that do this in small craft harbours, that provide money to them whenever a government boat pulls up to a small craft harbour, or a government plane, a state-owned aircraft, lands?