Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I'd like to welcome the minister and his officials. In the interests of time, I have a couple of very quick questions.
With small craft harbours, when you were on committee and up to today...we've always been concerned that the approvals don't seem to get done quickly enough and we get delayed in work, projects don't get started, and then there's a carryover, and so on.
I'm just wondering if you've really been doing anything to try to get the approval process done faster, so that the work gets done in the season it's supposed to be done in.
Another issue on which I'd like to ask a very quick question is this. I notice in reviewing transfers of quotas between contracting partners of NAFO that in 2007 Canada transferred 500 metric tonnes of 3M redfish, I think it was, to Japan. I'm wondering if you could inform the committee why that took place or what caused that to happen.