Thank you, Mr. Chair. I thank you for your appearance here today. We appreciate the information that you're bringing forward.
I just want to go back to the issue of the pilotage for the Great Lakes folks. I know you did a review of the Pacific pilotage program as well. I guess the difference between these two different organizations is that there wasn't an exemption on the Pacific coast. Do you have any information as it pertains to why the original exemption was actually put into place? Was it because of the complications? It's quite a bit different in terms of the conditions. The pilotage program in the Pacific pertains to the coastline, comparatively, to a very extensive waterway and inland seaway. So I'm wondering, was the exemption put into place for that purpose?