Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, Minister, for being here, and thank you for this legislation. Coastal communities have been waiting a very long time to deal with the problems we've seen with abandoned and derelict vessels. As you know, in my riding I have a number of them.
I understand that the legislation is on a go-forward basis, but what happens to the people who have them in their communities now? How do we deal with the vessels that are already there, especially the bigger ones, the ones that a small community cannot afford to remove? I want to make sure that this legislation does address the problems we're facing in towns like Bridgewater.