Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I have so many questions and so little time.
I'm tempted to continue my questions about tugboat safety, but I want to clarify that what I was suggesting in my last round of questions wasn't to require certification of all small commercial vessels but just of those that are involved in commercial towing, which, I believe you'll agree, has unique risks, similar to the unique risks involved in carrying more than 12 passengers.
I want to talk a little bit about one of the other concerns I've heard from people in the tugboat industry, which is with the lack of regulations around the size of load that a tugboat of a certain size can pull.
Jason Woods, the president of ILWU Local 400, was quoted as saying, “Right now, you have a culture of lax standards....You can tow a barge full of logging equipment on a bungee cord if you want to.”
My question is this: Is there any regulatory limit on the size of load that can be towed commercially by a barge under 15 tonnes?