Mr. Allen, we have a dredging problem every year. I have been a fisherman for 27 years. I remember dredging being done every year since then. That is 27 years. I am glad that we get funding every year for that. Even the fishermen are happy. But as my colleague has said, why do we have to re-submit our request every year? We know that the harbour silts up every year and that we need money to have the dredging done. It has to be done every year.
Dredging is a priority. In order to dock at Le Goulet, for example, the dredging has to be done. The material that has been dredged up has to be put somewhere. There needs to be one system just for dredging and another one for other projects. We have to pay to get rid of the dredged material. An environmental permit is required. There is bureaucracy to deal with. There is a cost for removing the silt, and then the storms fill up the hole again. More money has to be spent, and the hole gets filled up again. What sense does it make? Out of a $200,000 budget for the dredging, PWGSC uses $25,000 or $30,000 for dredging by the end of the year. What about Fisheries and Oceans? Who do we turn to then? We go back to Fisheries and Oceans. That is how it works.