I appreciate the fulsomeness of the response, but based on the sensitivity of what this committee heard—I didn't have the opportunity to actually be with them, but I read some of the accounts.... I know, Minister, you are from that part of the world, so I know you have an intimate knowledge about how folks feel about search and rescue on the coast.
We talked to someone at committee who was on the Melina Keith and who recounted what happened to him and two of his fellow sailors who perished at sea. He had intimate knowledge of the ability to find out where people were, and he knew that DFO knew how to find out where they were, but the response time was lacking because the folks who were going to go out didn't know that DFO had the information. This gentleman was in the sea watching his colleagues drown and was asking, where are they?
You look at the fact that this unspent money, which was for search and rescue, goes back, relaying that sensitivity, in the sense that folks are saying wait a minute, if we didn't know about all of the pieces you just articulated, someone could do this, this, and that....
Here we had a gap, where DFO specifically had information about how to find people, but unfortunately SARS didn't have this particular piece of information that would have got them there sooner. We don't know what the outcome would have been. Had it been a half hour sooner or 20 minutes sooner, or even 15 minutes sooner, the outcome could have been different for those two individuals.
When folks are looking at money going back, could we not say we need to redirect it to the appropriate place to make sure that information sharing actually happens, so we don't see those types of tragedies again?