I appreciate that point, Mr. Hardie.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Coast Guard, for the last decade, have come under significant funding pressures. When you're under significant pressure, you have to prioritize. It doesn't necessarily mean that you can do everything you want to do. In this case, it meant that significant parts of our core mandate were actually threatened. That's what we are now fixing with this $1.4-billion investment. The fact that a $1.5-billion investment in the oceans protection plan preceded that means that we now have, between budget 2016 and budget 2017, almost $3 billion to not only address our core mandate but to do many of the things this committee has been recommending we do.