Mr. Speaker, the system that will be put in place for the recovery of less than 20% of the costs of providing the ice-breaking service will be based on the region.
It may be of interest to the hon. member that to get to the Quebec ports and to the St. Lawrence River one sometimes has to go through ice which is around Newfoundland. The result is that some of the costs affecting the ships going to the St. Lawrence ports are sometimes borne by ice-breakers in the Newfoundland region.
We cannot simply break the ice on the river and ignore the approaches to the river which he seems to believe we should do.