Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all the guests.
Mr. Hann and Mr. Breen, thank you very much for welcoming us to your city. Also, thank you for your heartfelt thoughts, especially you, Mr. Breen, on the loss to your family.
Mr. McCurdy, I'm going to start with you on this one. Yesterday we had some interventions by a couple of fishermen who brought up some good points about the EPIRBs. Also, we visited the coast guard this morning and talked about the EPIRBs.
The thing about EPIRBs is that they're imperfect—perhaps that's the most apt description—when it comes to distress and finding the exact location. Many people would ask why you don't just get the latest technology involving GPS or some variation of GPS to use that. Could you comment on that, on the stress, the onus, it puts on the individual harvester about acquiring all this equipment?
Also, given the fact you are with the union, the FFAW, and that some of the major decisions to come out of this I think stem from tragedies, unfortunately, such as we've heard talked about, with the Cougar helicopter crash, but also with situations such as the Ryan's Commander and the Melina and Keith II, could you comment on that?
Specifically, could you comment on this idea about the daytime hours 30-minute response? Because nowadays in the fishing industry, they're not smaller boats that return to their families in the evening. They are bigger boats, with bigger catches, and therefore are required to go farther offshore. As a result, they're several days on the open water, where the idea of banker's hours disappears, which you alluded to.