Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for being here, Ms. Lapointe and Ms. Frenette.
I'm going to carry on with what Mr. Hardie was discussing here, which was the design and reconstruction or improvement phase. This is sometimes happening. I'm not saying it happens in every case, but we saw instances of it when the committee travelled to the five provinces on the Atlantic side.
I did some travel this summer, including to a harbour in southwest Nova Scotia, Wedgeport Harbour. The small craft harbour authority had come in and built a breakwall in the harbour. Because of where they had put it, they had basically blocked off about 300 feet of usable dock space, so there was no room to bring a larger vessel in there. You could have brought in a 12-foot car topper safely, but anything bigger than that and you would have basically been on the ground along 300 feet of usable dock space.
How can that be explained to the small craft harbour branch and the designers and so on? We saw example after example like that.