You said that the wharf was the soul of the community. That is absolutely true, because in our community, we all live off fishing. I am in my 30s, and I expect to spend the rest of my working life fishing. That takes a lot of investment. I have been chairman of the harbour authority from the very start.
Now, we are beginning to notice that it's tough to find people to sit on the committee. They are behind us, and they see that whenever we go to DFO, DFO says it has no money, even before we open our mouths.
Our wharves are in ruins. The department imposed harbour authorities on us. I think we do some very good administrative work. We started from scratch and got where we are today. We never received the funding we were promised when these harbour authorities were imposed on us. We were told to set up committees and ask for money to implement our projects. The funding side of it was forgotten. It's funding that we lack.
That is all I have to say.