Thank you, Madame Desbiens.
I think there are two opportunities. The first one, trying to get this under control from a triage perspective, I think, would be identification and removal. Prevention would come last. Once we get this current situation under control in terms of what's there, then I think prevention comes first, followed by identification and then removal.
I say that because the vessels need to be identified by the owners, and that's difficult to do. Here in B.C., there are two ways that a boat can be registered. One is through the Canada registry, which is how I registered my boat, because I bought it offshore. The other way, which is the case for the majority of the boats here, because they are pleasure craft, is through a licensing process.
You would indicate the province—for example, B.C.—and then there would be a series of numbers beside it. Generally, this registration is located on the side of the boat. If a boat is going to become abandoned or derelict, boat owners generally will remove those numbers to make it more difficult for vessels to be identified. I think we need to put more onus on making it more difficult for an owner to remove that licensing information.
The other thing is that we need to put the onus again on the boat owner, to put in place more red tape, for lack of appropriate words, to make it more difficult for them to just sell their boat to anybody, because that is what's happening. They're giving their boats away to people or selling them, and the new person is not registering them. Even though the boat technically hasn't been removed from the prior vessel owner's insurance, or the identification has been removed—