I can't speak to every other harbour, I can only speak to my own harbour. When we started our harbour authority some years back, we took over a facility that you wouldn't have gotten anything for if you were to try to sell it to the private sector. You would have had to pay to get rid of it. Over the years small craft harbours directorate has probably invested somewhere in the neighbourhood of $100,000 in our harbour. We've invested in our harbour an additional $300,000 to $400,000 of our own money, not counting our time and effort. We turned that facility into something today that's worth millions of dollars. That value goes to you guys. We don't retain any of the value from all of our efforts on that project. Now, for people to say that maybe we're not getting good bang for the buck, that's not the case. It may be the case sometimes, and I can't speak to every harbour, but if you look across the country from the time those harbours were turned over to the harbour authorities, and the actual difference between the value of them then and the value of them today, I think you'd find you have a lot more money there now than what you've invested in those harbours over the years.
On November 26th, 2009. See this statement in context.