Deputy Minister, you mentioned there are a great number of these vessels just under 15 tonnes operating on the B.C. coast, and it seems to me that the government has set a threshold for commercial certification and inspection that costs the industry money. Let's be fair about that. As a result, there are a lot of vessels that fall just under that certification threshold. We have a lot of incidents on the B.C. coast reported by the media, and by the union that represents tugboat workers. There are a lot of safety incidents. I also hear stories about companies modifying the vessels so that they're able to get under that 15-tonne threshold.
It seems to me like we should err on the side of caution, on the side of worker safety, and should simply require these vessels to be held to the same commercial inspection and certification standard that a whale-watching vessel that holds 12 tourists is held to. Does that not seem to be a fair? When we're talking about worker safety and situations where men have died on our coast, it just seems like a simple fix: change the threshold.
Why hasn't Transport Canada done that?