Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, everybody, for being here.
I want to give the parliamentary secretary an opportunity to make abundantly clear a couple of points with a simple yes or no answer, to be followed by an open-ended question in which he would be free to refer to his colleagues for additional comments and background.
I want to start with the metro Vancouver dive team. There was a rationale suggesting that this team, which is the only team in the area that's able to go in and rescue people from sunken cars or vessels, could be replaced if the RCMP or the Vancouver Police Department, both of whom have dive teams, was able to take on this additional function. I had also been assured that this dive team would remain in place until such time as those other teams could take on this work. We have now heard that they have no interest in doing so.
Will the metro Vancouver dive team remain in place, yes or no?