I believe that's extremely important. As you mentioned, capacity is a safety issue. For example, last Christmas we had a big storm on Christmas Day. I spent the majority of my Christmas Day at the wharf, because we were fearful for our vessels. Because of overcrowding and overcapacity, they're adjacent to each other and are tied two-wide.
In reference to your funding question, I believe what happened was that in the 1970s a lot of infrastructure was created in our area. They allocated some budget money to maintain these wharves, but that budget percentage hasn't grown with inflation. Currently, to fix what I call the crisis, we need significant A-base funding for a few years to go ahead with the projects that I'm guessing we all have on the table waiting to be done.
Then, I believe, the yearly funding, as Mr. Facey mentioned, that small craft harbours operate on—their day-to-day budget—should be slightly augmented so that, as you mentioned, they don't run out halfway through the year.
In closing, let me say yes, we need major funding to get this capacity issue dealt with. Then we definitely have to look at the day-to-day “fixing the ladders” type of budget.