It's like everything else....
Evidence of meeting #27 for Fisheries and Oceans in the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was little.
Evidence of meeting #27 for Fisheries and Oceans in the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was little.
Conservative
Blaine Calkins Conservative Wetaskiwin, AB
If I remember correctly, it was a donation. There wasn't actually a fee to go in.
Chairman, North Rustico Harbour Authority
No. There is a fee to go through the museum itself. It's only $3, but I made you a nice no-frills lobster fishing video. You sit down, and you watch actual lobster fishing, and I explain all the things to you. I'm telling you, that's where you should have gone.
Conservative
Chairman, North Rustico Harbour Authority
Did you watch the video?
Conservative
Blaine Calkins Conservative Wetaskiwin, AB
If it was there.... I don't know if it was or wasn't. I have little kids who were running around wanting me to buy everything in the store.
Chairman, North Rustico Harbour Authority
It generates a bit of revenue, but it's still not keeping us out of the hole.
Conservative
Blaine Calkins Conservative Wetaskiwin, AB
From your perspective then, I'd ask this question just out of my own curiosity. I'm trying to get a feel for how much revenue each of these harbours has. What do you guys have for income there as far as your berthage fees go and all those other kinds of fees that you may charge or collect versus your expenses? What are you left with at the end of the year?
Chairman, North Rustico Harbour Authority
The harbour itself brings in around $12,000 revenue, with little boats, the museum, that sort of thing, but that includes a couple of government grants when you hire a couple of students. The expenses are around $14,000. So we're not making any money.
Conservative
Chairman, North Rustico Harbour Authority
We are losing money until we can get a good flow of people coming through.
Conservative
Chairman, North Rustico Harbour Authority
There could be room to expand if we had a plan, but we've never really talked about it. That little marina, for example, was supposed to hold 14 boats at $700 apiece when we first got the thing going. But there's no water in it. The water's very low in parts of it, and to dredge it.... It's black mud, and there's the problem. So we're running into lots of problems.
Conservative
Blaine Calkins Conservative Wetaskiwin, AB
And you don't really have access to the anchor stone here in Prince Edward Island as you would in Newfoundland or some place like that. These rocks have to be shipped in from somewhere else, right?
Chairman, North Rustico Harbour Authority
They have to come from New Brunswick.
Conservative
Conservative
Blaine Calkins Conservative Wetaskiwin, AB
Thank you. I appreciate it. I would just encourage you to keep up the good work and hopefully--
Chairman, North Rustico Harbour Authority
My heart's in the old fishery, boys. I've been in her, and it's kind of tempting to put her up for sale by times. I'm 66, you know. Do you want to buy it?
Conservative
Blaine Calkins Conservative Wetaskiwin, AB
On that note, I'm going to hand it over to Mr. Kamp if he has any questions.
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