Thank you, Chair.
I'm going to go back to the activity in our northern waterways. It's a given. It's been presented so many times. People said it's going to happen.
Just following up on Mr. Schellenberger's question on that, what we see in some of the western United States is they have rules and regulations when ships come into their waters. We also have them here. Oil tankers coming into our waters have to have a bond of some sort.
David, you are well aware of what's happening on Scatarie Island. We have a ship there that nobody has taken responsibility for. We're only lucky that there's nothing in it. What if it was filled with contaminants or whatever? It shows that we're not really...I don't know, ready for this.
Should we have some sort of protocol in place, that when these ships enter our waters, they automatically have a bond in place? I've seen it at the Panama Canal. The ships come in, electronically money is transferred, and it's done. If there's any damage...they get it on the way out. Shouldn't we have something in place? The activity's going to be increasing. The approach to our waters is going to be there. Instead of all of a sudden fighting with who's going to clean it up, how it's going to be cleaned up, who is going to tow it away from some sort of land mass, shouldn't we start now with some sort of protocol? Ships are coming into our waterways, going up north, there's going to have to be a bond in place, and when you go out the other side the bond will be released.