Again, it goes back to trying to register a boat now. It's almost impossible. I took a boat the society owns and donated it to another society. It was a six-month process to change that ownership. It was just insane.
Again, in B.C., we'd be farther ahead getting it as a pleasure craft and having ICBC take care of it for a yearly fee. For my whole life, I have been against insuring a vessel that was registered, but now I'm in this industry more. The only way to pay for it is through insurance. Get it done. I insist that, if you're going to get a boat on the water, you're going to need insurance on it. It's one of those things we have to rethink.
People are unaware that the enforcement of ownership of these vessels is not done by Transport Canada. It's the RCMP in B.C., but they do not have any funds. I deal with the RCMP. Because we're in a border area, I deal with customs, immigration and things like that. The RCMP are the ones who are supposed to come up to your boat and say, “Give me your ownership documents. Give me your licence. Give me your this and that.” They don't have the resources or the time. That's another thing that has to change. The RCMP has to get resources to get boats, then train people to go out and inspect them. I get pulled over because I have a big fishing boat, but that's about it.