Thank you.
I appreciate the opportunity to respond to that. As to where Transport Canada goes forward, that's up for consultation of course, but right now they, under the bill, will be taking on the responsibility for developing the standards and issuing pilotage certificates. When I refer to pilotage certificates as opposed to pilotage licences, they'll be doing both, but the pilotage certificates are what the masters and navigating officers on the ships receive in order to pilot their own vessels in pilotage areas.
This practice has been going on for decades in the Great Lakes quite extensively compared with the other regions. The certification process was formalized in 2012.
In 2013, I will just add that the Canadian shipowners developed a very rigorous and comprehensive training program in conjunctions with the Great Lakes Pilotage Authority. This is a program that we'd like to see taken to other regions as well.