This may seem odd. The reason I ask that is that I'm absolutely flabbergasted at your testimony today. I'm looking at Transport Canada's mandate online. I'll spare you the preamble. I know most of you know this, and you probably know it very well, but Transport Canada's safety and security activities include the following: aircraft services, civil aviation, marine safety, and marine security.
Your testimony today is pointing fingers at DFO. Many of the folks here know that I have a transportation background. Here's full disclosure. I was once a Transport Canada employee in airports and aviation. I know that we have standards. I know that Transport Canada is our overarching regulation authority.
How is it that—forgive me, I didn't do the math—the four executives who are before us today...and that we have not a standardized marine vessel length that...? The one paragraph that was mentioned, that there are four or five different vessel lengths that are out there, that DFO has its own method of measuring.... How is it that we do not have a standardized vessel length or...?As you can tell, I'm flabbergasted here, and I'm having a hard time getting the words out.
How is it that Transport Canada is having to defer to DFO on this?
Ms. Weldon.