Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I thank you, gentlemen, for coming. We always appreciate hearing from you. We get straight answers to our questions, and we always appreciate that.
I want to take the opportunity as well to thank you for your work. We certainly do acknowledge the good work that the harbour authorities do. In fact, we're always very impressed when we're out there or when we're talking to you here with the investment that you make on our behalf. We realize that, and we do want to thank you for that on behalf of the government.
I'm going to split my time with Mr. Allen, so don't let me go beyond five minutes if possible.
I want to thank you, Ben, for the point that you made. I think it's a point we may have missed so far in our study, that we need to do a better job of consulting when there are fish management issues that will have an impact, or ocean issues that will have an impact on the small craft harbours. I think we do need to keep you in the loop there better than we've done.
I want to follow up a little on Mr. Blais's line of questioning with respect to how work gets done. We've heard along the way that it would be helpful to the harbour authorities if the $40,000 limit were increased perhaps several times, to maybe $200,000. I think that's a figure we might have heard in our travels. I just wonder what you think about that. Would that help you get your work done and perhaps get more bang for the buck in the dollars that are spent?