Fisheries committee  Thank you, Minister. Yes, we indeed have many indigenous training programs that came to light with the OPP and have been very successful. A good example of this is that at the end of the first training session, people went back home and the next morning there was a search and rescue incident around Tofino.

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the question. Budgets enable us to ensure that equipment is always cutting–edge. We have an equipment review program in place and we ensure that all search and rescue stations have the same type of equipment from coast to coast to coast. No specific sector is prioritized.

Fisheries committee  The reason there is a search and rescue coordination centre in Quebec is to have that francophone capacity. There are also francophone or bilingual search and rescue coordinators in Trenton and Halifax, which cover some of the Quebec sector's extremities. If you have a specific case in mind, it would be my pleasure to follow up on it.

Fisheries committee  Yes, obviously we're working on the extension of the oceans protection plan in order to address some of the remaining gaps. We've done a huge lessons learned on the OPP1 and we've done great things in OPP1 that allowed us a good response to the Zim Kingston. We're going forward with a request for an extension.