Thank you, Chair.
I appreciate your bringing this forward because clearly there are derelict vessels along all coasts, including the Arctic and absolutely on the east coast. The reason I had it narrowed down to just the west coast is that we had agreement to allocate only four meetings, which would never be able to entail all of the information we would need to cover the east coast and the Arctic as well.
I would be more than happy to accept an amendment by one of my colleagues to add two meetings to the study to include the Arctic and the east coast, if that's the will of the committee.