He's tight on his own.
With the money coming in to keep those doors open since 1992 we had to get inventive: supply boats, cable ships, cruise ships--you name it, we've done it to keep those doors open. That money goes back to the harbour authority.
For an awful lot of the work we do in these harbour authorities we don't contact the small craft harbours people. We've got four fenders gone, we've got a ladder gone, we need divers.... We have to hire divers. Sometimes we can avail ourselves of government services and at other times we don't; we just go ahead and do it on our own. We do this a lot. If we need lines in the parking lot, we have staff or students, and we have to get them trained. All this money comes out of our general revenue. That money comes back into the facility and goes in for the infrastructure of the facility.
We're all pretty proud of what we have there, and we see ourselves as little town councils in a way, because we're taking care of that for the greater good and for the people coming behind.
We are making a major investment in it. The volunteer is one piece. We all pay fees at the facilities and we've talked about the berthage fees and prices for unloading. We have tour boats operating and they have to pay licence fees. We have processors paying licence fees. The American swordfish boats pay unloading fees per pound. All companies do that; it doesn't matter what it is. Even the Canadian government comes in and ties on and they pay berthage for the coast guard boats. So no one gets a break. Everyone pays.
I will say that we do give one break. If a pleasure boater comes in, one of these transient boats or yachts going around the world and that kind of stuff, we given them their first night for free. We give them a break.