Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I was taken aback when I read the Auditor General's report on the coast guard. It casts some troubling doubts on a proud agency. When you follow the history, you find long-standing differences between what the Auditor General expects the agency to be and what it actually is.
The change from Transport to Fisheries was significant in the administration of the coast guard. Are some of these problems reflective of the change from one department to another? Has Fisheries not been able to cope with the coast guard? That was a major change that the government made. Do you think this is part of the problem? Is Fisheries and Oceans just too involved with other issues to be able to cope with the coast guard?