What scares me is that we appear to have gone forward, and the time is fast disappearing.
If anything, I'm here to the detriment of my health, not for the good of my health.
You made a very good point. DFO has said to us that by the January 1 deadline, everything may not be ready to be rolled out by then but they're going to be ready. That tells me that whatever is going to take place with regard to meetings, consultations, amendments, delivery mechanisms, and so on, will have been done, so even if it's not rolled out for six more months, what difference does it make? That is our deep concern.
You did mention, sir, the loss of habitat staff in Prince Edward Island. No, there would be no habitat staff on Prince Edward Island. The Charlottetown office will be closed. As far as the east coast of Canada, we're going to be down to only three offices, Moncton, Dartmouth, and St. John's, Newfoundland.
If I had appeared here and spoken to you two years ago about the situation in eastern Canada, I would have said at that time we did not have enough habitat staff. Habitat staff are being dramatically decreased, and delivery opportunity is going to be next to nil.
You asked specifically about Prince Edward Island. All summer long, all fall long, there have been serious problems in Prince Edward Island with respect to agricultural runoff. I do not know how that will be handled without staff in Prince Edward Island.