Very good. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for providing testimony today, and thank you for your time, for your expertise and knowledge, and for your experiences. We appreciate it.
I'll start with you, Mayor Mitchell, and you can speak to this as well, Ms. Brokenshire, from your perspective. Is there a prioritization based on the level of risk that certain vessels pose to the surrounding environments and ecosystems? How does that get established?
Have you found that there's been good co-operation, whether it's with the Department of Transport or the federal government, in responding to that, when you're saying that this is urgent and this needs to be dealt with or we're going to have an ecological crisis on our hands or have a real problem?
How have you found the uptake? When you hear testimony that it takes 30 years to get a vessel out of the water.... I know it's a complicated business. It's not simple, but there must be a way of prioritizing those types of situations. Can both of you speak to that?
I'll start with you, Mayor Mitchell.