Let me go back, Madam Minister, and ask you about the oil spill response. We just had an incident, of course, in English Bay. But I take you back to what a federal panel noted in 2013, that there are gaps in the government's oil spill response. It stated that a “timely response to a spill is a key factor in mitigating its effects”. Then in October 2014, it took 20 hours for a coast guard vessel to arrive on the scene off Haida Gwaii, and we've had this recent incident in English Bay. This affects not just the west coast but the east coast.
I wonder whether you would assure members of this committee that, in spite of the fact that there has been a reduction in the budget as it relates to this issue, your department is going to make sure work is being done to provide better and the actual world-class response time that you proclaim.