This specific amendment deals with a situation in which the minister exercises their discretion to direct a vessel in a fairly extreme case, because it's a vessel that's posing a direct or indirect risk to the environment, the well-being of marine ecosystems or the security of marine transportation, including any person, goods, vessel or marine facility. This is a situation in which a vessel needs to come under the direction of the minister and be directed somewhere.
My read of this amendment is simply that in directing the vessel, the minister is to avoid directing it through or into any of the specified anchorages in the southern Gulf Islands. That's not a good place to park a ship that is a risk.
Our witness, Mr. Ryan, has raised the question of a ship with an on-board risk to human health or some other situation. I wonder if there are other clauses that provide for emergency situations in which the risk isn't to the environment or to marine life but is simply that there's something happening on board that has put the crew in a situation in which they need to anchor to deal with it. I think any coastal community in any one of those areas would understand that such a thing would be a legitimate reason to anchor the vessel there while the emergency was dealt with.
Is there either a clause elsewhere in the act that would account for that or some way to subamend this amendment to provide for those specific kinds of situations?