Yes and no. We have vessel identification systems, and for ships that are compliant, that's very helpful. We're actually not so worried about the compliant ones, but about the ones that, for a variety of reasons, will often turn off their transponders, and sometimes they are very good reasons. For example, if you're a on a fishing boat, you often don't want to attract attention because then all the other fishing boats follow you, and you lose the best catch. There are also more nefarious reasons for turning off your transponders. We have vessel identification systems. We have radar. We have HUMINT. We have surveillance. We have regular patrols. All of this information is something that MSOCs look at on a regular basis and discuss among each other so that they can make the Canadian operating picture the best, most complete, most useful picture that we have.
One of the things we often wrestle with is that more information is sometimes not always helpful because it gets harder and harder to see the outliers in that big picture. It's also a constant challenge to look at the types of filters we have, the quality of the information that goes in, and then turning information into intelligence requires an assessment function. That's often the first thing that goes, especially when you want to save money on personnel and funding. That's a really difficult, challenging, and specialized work. So more information without have the ability to assess it is a problem; likewise, being able to warn of a situation but not being able to respond is also a problem. All along the way there are these points of failure.