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Fisheries committee It's a reasonable decision in that it doesn't compromise safety. We have implemented a new system that allows for a reduction in the number of locations from which we offer the service. It hasn't compromised safety. It has reduced the workload for the employees at the station thr
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Jody Thomas
Fisheries committee Mr. Strahl, I can assure you that it was not affected by the decision to study. The May date had always been on the books. We can't close stations, we can't consolidate, and we can't do work on the stations through the busy summer boating season, so we closed them all, and we've
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Jody Thomas
Fisheries committee Comox is the last consolidation so this system is rolled out across the country. Canada is a maritime nation. Along the St. Lawrence in the summer we have the highest density of recreational vessel traffic anywhere in the country and the system is functioning perfectly, and in th
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Jody Thomas
Fisheries committee The minister, I believe, has been to MCTS centres, and so, yes, he has heard transmissions.
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Jody Thomas
Fisheries committee I can't say that he's heard one of the transmissions that has reverberation or feedback on it. I wasn't with him when he was on his regional tours.
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Jody Thomas
Fisheries committee He has not been to the MCTS centre in Prince Rupert that I am aware of.
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Jody Thomas
Fisheries committee I believe he went to Halifax and Quebec. Because there is no consistent reverberation, no consistent echo, no consistent static, but rather specific transmissions that have problems, we're looking into why. It's not the software. Echo problems in the software have been corrected
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Jody Thomas
Fisheries committee Yes, Mr. Donnelly, I'm assuring you of that. The system's been tested. The number of people responding per volume is unchanged. We have surge capacity if there is a major incident. We also have expansion capacity within the centres as traffic increases. We monitor these things ju
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Jody Thomas
Fisheries committee I'd like to refer back to the staffing, if I may, for one second—
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Jody Thomas
Fisheries committee Okay. I'm not sure about the lifeboat analogy for Comox. I didn't hear it. I can review that quote and get back to you, if you would like. But the network as it's structured means that we will have zones within the Prince Rupert and the Victoria stations that will monitor speci
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Jody Thomas
Fisheries committee We had a $47-million budget for the MCTS program. We saved $7 million, and we've turned that over to the centre as part of the deficit reduction action plan, so that money is gone from the Coast Guard budget. Long-term, it will save money, based on the number of people we employ
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Jody Thomas
Fisheries committee There isn't really a private sector equivalent, but that study of seven persons was done in 2003 and I'm not sure what the methodology was for it. The standard that we're using now is based on our 2009 workload study.
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Jody Thomas
Fisheries committee I don't know where that number has come from. Within the project budget, because this was a national project started in 2012, we estimated a one-time cost of $50,000 per employee for relocation. There is equipment in Comox, but that's the banks of servers, the racks of computer
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Jody Thomas
Fisheries committee I didn't see the video, but DFO does modelling all the time of various scenarios, whether they are the most likely or the most extreme. The models of Capital Regional District, which is responsible for the lower island—the south coast of the island—and that area of Victoria, say
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Jody Thomas
Fisheries committee We believe in the Coast Guard. Absolutely, this consolidation is being done safely. I say this and have evidence of it. We intended to release the software in 2013 and start the modernization. As I said, Coast Guard employees tested the software. We received the software from t
April 12th, 2016Committee meeting
Jody Thomas