Fisheries committee  No. In fact, Mr. Chair, I propose to do the whole presentation for the Coast Guard, and I should be in the 10-minute to12-minute range.

Fisheries committee  The area we're responsible for is roughly the same area as the European Union. It would also be comparable to the whole of the Arctic Ocean, somewhere between five million and seven million square kilometres.

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the question. You've quite rightly touched on the fact that the Coast Guard has undergone several changes, and we certainly envision a few more. You may or may not know that in the last few years, we actually consolidated from five regions to three, which was a mas

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I simply wanted to say that there will be a fine line there. We are constrained in terms of what we can provide that was advice to a previous cabinet, as you can appreciate, but we will certainly be happy to provide in both official languages everything we'

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the question. The cost is a very difficult one to address, frankly, because it's fairly open-ended, and it depends entirely on what obligations are created on the operational agency. If you took the broadest possible view of the issue on whether the Coast Guard wo

Fisheries committee  Perhaps because you didn't specify a witness, we'll both want to speak to this question. It's a very interesting question from where we sit. Changing technology in the marine industry is happening faster, and it's happening in a very broad way. The industry itself doesn't quite

Fisheries committee  I referred earlier to the need for clearer authorities. I would say that's the strongest lesson that I personally would take from the American model. The caution I would note on the American model is that in some jurisdictions, by having taken aggressive action on wrecks and de

Fisheries committee  If I may, on the jurisdiction point, I'd like to add that there is no single minister responsible for search and rescue at the federal level. The Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard is responsible for marine search and rescue. Pardon me for smiling when I

Fisheries committee  We did have a fire on Coast Guard hovercraft Mamilossa around noon today. The vessel was operating in Lac Saint-Pierre, in Quebec. The fire was in an engine compartment. On the hovercraft, the engines are fairly self-contained. They're in an enclosed space with a forced air intak

Fisheries committee  That money is not a cost overrun. The budget for this project was reset in 2015, and this is drawing down the first tranche of money from that budget. It is a large amount, there's no question about that, but we're now 40% into the first vessel, and the monthly goals are pretty s

Fisheries committee  These are different vessels. You can think of it very simply as that the fisheries science vessels are concerned with the health and well-being of the fish stocks themselves; the oceanographic vessel is primarily focused on the chemistry of the ocean, the temperature of the ocean

Fisheries committee  Those new vessels form part of a larger program. These are not the 47-footers that you may be most familiar with. Most of our lifeboats are the 47-footers. These are the larger Arun class. They can handle heavier seas and can go further offshore. We've been doing a risk assessmen

Fisheries committee  No, there's nothing for Kitsilano in the supplementary estimates (C). We would expect that to be in for the coming year.

Fisheries committee  It is true that our fleet, particularly our large vessel fleet, is aging. I will note that our small vessel fleet has a much lower average age and is of much less concern. We're looking in particular at the icebreaking fleet, for example, where the average age is creeping up pr

Fisheries committee  The procurement under NSPS is a partnership, if you will. Public Services and Procurement is in charge of the actual procurement process. The defence procurement secretariat resides there, and the DPS is in charge of procurement. Our role is in partnership. We work directly with