That's why I'm asking Government of Canada representatives to come back to the table with people from the Government of Quebec and the Société portuaire du Bas‑Saint‑Laurent et de la Gaspésie. The port has indeed been neglected for far too many years. The existing wharf cannot be restored. The corrosion really is way too advanced. That's why we need to build a new wharf perpendicular to the existing wharf.
As you can imagine, there will be additional costs. Federal government officials should have started by sitting down with Government of Quebec officials to discuss the options and then proceeded to rehabilitate and modernize the existing wharf. It could then have been divested by paying a sum of money for its future maintenance, instead of allocating money for a port that's at the end of its life.
Rehabilitating a seaport is a major undertaking. The 2033 deadline will be here in no time. The most important thing to keep in mind is that two-thirds of the 311,000 tonnes of goods transshipped at the port of Matane are already leaving—