Thank you.
I want to bring to the attention of committee commercial vessel registration policy just to show the contrast of how it's managed from one area to the other. I had a fisherman ask for a copy of the policy, one of them who appeared before committee recently. They checked, and in the response they got back one part was particularly interesting. It said that registered vessels may be specified as a condition of the licence and registered in the licence-holder's name for a minimum period of one month, except in the Newfoundland region, where the minimum period is 12 months.
Can anyone explain why there's a difference? Why would there be such a vast difference from one province to the other? To me, DFO is coast to coast to coast, yet you have these little differences from as close as one province to the other. Can anybody explain that policy to me or that regulation?