No, I don't really think that it makes any difference. But perhaps I can make one suggestion as to something that might be done with harbour authorities and through small crafts. We've talked a bit this afternoon about trying to find solutions to problems, trying to find solutions to infilling, siltation, and breakwaters. Part of the problem with small crafts is that we can't access the funds to do those studies because we're eating into the very dollars we need to fix the wharf. Is there another government department that has some type of an innovation fund that we could look to in order to fund some of these studies so that we're not taking our “mortar and brick” dollars, pardon the term, to fund studies into tidal patterns and erosion and siltations?
On November 28th, 2007. See this statement in context.