Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans describes the realignment of jurisdiction over aquaculture as “a fundamental redesign of the entire current-day aquaculture regulatory regime”. Budget 2010 identifies no additional funds for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to meet these challenges. The decision itself was put into abeyance for a period of 12 months, and extended a second time. But the deadline is still, as I understand it, December 2010.
Deep within this fiscal year, you have to make all these changes. You've got a lot of work to do. Are you going to reach these challenges by simply redistributing funds from within the department to do what was formerly the jurisdiction of the Province of B.C.?