Thank you, Chair.
Actually, the Liberal Party did oppose the creation of the Parliamentary Budget Office, if I remember the votes exactly on that one.
Mr. Whitworth, I'll start with you. I appreciate your earlier testimony about both the Douglas Channel and the Second Narrows Bridge, and the safety record, for example, of transiting the Second Narrows. I transited that by water this summer on my visit out in Vancouver. I was in Kitimat and in Prince Rupert as well. I got to see the Douglas Channel first hand.
Those of us who live on the Detroit River have the Livingstone Channel that's about the same clearance width—450 feet—as the Second Narrows Bridge. They've been piloting 1,000-foot lake freighters up and down there without incident or problem for decades on end, so there is something to be said for the overall safety of marine transport, including the very large classes of ships, regardless of cargo content. So your comments are taken with appreciation.
Mr. Lowry, in your testimony you said you support a move to risk-based planning within response areas. I want to probe what you mean by that, and why you support that. Is that because it would allow your organization to either shift resources or response away from lower risk areas under your jurisdiction, or are you looking at this that in fact no area would lose resources as a result of risk analyses, but that you need to target higher resources to certain risk areas such that no area actually gets fewer resources? Or are you talking about an actual shift, fewer resources in one area and more to another within your operations? Can you clarify that for the record, please?