Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank the representatives of the Canada Coast Guard for being here. It's always nice to have them here.
I'm going to take 30 seconds of my speaking time to thank them. My first time on a boat was when I was seven days old. In fact, it was on the Canada Coast Guard ship Montcalm, which took my parents and me from Quebec City to Isle-aux-Coudres, because the Isle-aux-Coudres ferry was out of service due to a fault with the clutch. My father was the ferry captain at the time. So the captain of the Montcalm told my father he would take us to Isle-aux-Coudres.
The ferry to Isle-aux-Coudres was out of service this morning too, and people would have loved to see a Canada Coast Guard ship sailing along Isle-aux-Coudres.
Mr. Mes, have you ever had to intervene in area 22, which lies along the Magdalen Islands, when whales were sighted? I would imagine so, but I would also like to know how many times you've had to intervene and how it went.
Could you describe the circumstances of your interventions?