Okay. Thank you.
The biggest change that I think would be helpful would be just to streamline the process. I don't think any of us should have been or should be in the future terribly surprised about these dramatic and devastating climate-related events. In September, it was eastern Canada. Next month or six months down the road, it could be central Canada, western Canada or the north.
These are all realities that we're facing, and when Fiona hit, in some ways it felt like we were starting from scratch and trying to—I know these programs existed—find ways around it for how we could make this work for the fishing industry. We know these events are going to happen, unfortunately, but I think we could be better prepared and have the processes in place.
We're over two months down the road now. It's nine weeks or so since the hurricane struck. I and a co-worker have spent several weeks in the area and have done a lot of work on this, and we're still just now looking at—hopefully—getting some applications submitted to the DFFA program. That was with assistance from the province to answer questions. They're quick and everything; it's just if that process could be streamlined and provide people with some predictability. I think that's what everybody finds difficult in this: They're not sure what's going to be covered. They're not sure what that compensation might look like. They're not sure of the next steps.
It's not that we want to water things down. I mean, we all realize that we're spending other people's money and we must be incredibly accountable to Canadian taxpayers, but if there were a bit more predictability and streamlining of that application process it would be very helpful.