Thank you, sir.
Congratulations on your new appointment. As you can see, everyone is in agreement, or perhaps not--much like yourselves.
I would like to start on voted appropriations. I've a question here.
On the first item under the category of funding of about $19.9 million to continue the current level of repair and maintenance activity at core commercial fishing harbours, that's the replacement of the funding for infrastructure programs that were sunset in March of last year. Why has the government ignored the unanimous vote in the House of Commons on June 15, 2006, to allocate $35 million to the small craft harbours program, and not just $20 million? The program, in my opinion, would still be about $15 million short of the will of Parliament.