Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Transport. On October 18, I asked the minister how he could justify spending nearly $10 million a year to keep the Coast Guard College in Sydney open when the Marine Institute in Rimouski, Quebec, the Pacific Maritime Training Institute in Vancouver and the Marine Institute in Newfoundland, among others, offered the same services. I never heard back from him on that.
How can the minister contemplate, as outlined in the last budget, imposing higher rates on Coast Guard service users, when he does not have the courage to end needless duplication, as in the case of the college in Sydney, which costs the taxpayers $10 million per year?