Sure. It's not something any government would be proud of. When we first came into office, the on-time performance of Marine Atlantic was down around 10% during the summer months--peak time. That was because it was an older fleet that you couldn't rely on, and there was a lack of extra capacity to catch up. You're always going to have problems with weather, delays, and so on; the people of Atlantic Canada understand that and have learned to live with it. But if you don't have any capacity to catch up and you have an old, deteriorating fleet, you are in serious trouble. They're on life support.
On top of that, there were onshore facilities that were depleting and becoming very run down. So with the dollars we got prior to 2010, we brought on the Atlantic Vision. Thank goodness. It's still not good, but it has brought service up to about 43% on-time during the summer. This summer was a little better than that, and they had record capacity of truck traffic this summer.
We still won't solve the problems of Marine Atlantic until we get new vessels. I never mentioned this, but we not only have two new vessels that have 40% more capacity in the belly than the Smallwood or the Caribou, but we also have the Atlantic Vision. It is a beautiful vessel that is very large and will be an impressive vessel for tourism out to Argentia. There is also the $18 million retrofit of the Leif Ericson. The entire fleet of four vessels will be new or completely refitted. It is a massive undertaking to be able to put those dollars appropriately into Marine Atlantic and rebuild it.
The onshore facilities--their docks, terminals, ramps, equipment, and IT services--are all included in the dollars that will go to Marine Atlantic, so by spring.... We were talking at the beginning about a beautiful relationship between the government, Marine Atlantic, and the people of Newfoundland and Labrador and Atlantic Canada, to be able to facilitate what they need to move and grow forward, as far as the capacity demands for this service.