Fisheries committee  That's a difficult question to answer. I think it's based on our national forum, this network in the NHAAC, and that's when we started hearing about it on a national basis. But I think you hit on it. When it starts to depreciate so bad that it causes the stress levels to go up, t

Fisheries committee  The costs of dredging can fluctuate based on things like fuel costs. Mobilization is huge. To mobilize a dredging rig you're probably looking at about $30,000 out of what comes your way. So there are other things that just add to it. It's a very expensive job.

Fisheries committee  I'm sorry, I just can't quite recall the question.

Fisheries committee  Yes, I am, Mr. Kamp.

Fisheries committee  One good thing that's happening out in B.C. with the HAABC is that we build our annual conference around our annual general meeting, where we provide workshops on governance, marine law, and all of those other things to help people better themselves in managing these harbours and

Fisheries committee  Yes, I think that's what regional directors will do in accordance with the chain of command. They will figure out those numbers from a region-specific...how they gather their information through their area chiefs, or what have you. But I thought it would be more than $475 million

Fisheries committee  I would like to echo that. I've been on the front lines on these harbours as well. When you're walking the floats and trying to answer questions about why this isn't fixed and why it is like this.... Those people on the front lines get a lot of abuse. I got it first-hand myself,

Fisheries committee  Merci, Luc. My name is Bob Baziuk. I'm from Steveston Harbour Authority, which is located in the Pacific region at the mouth of the Fraser River. It's the largest harbour in Canada, a commercial fishing harbour. With me today is Elizabeth McLeod from Comox Harbour Authority, and

Fisheries committee  I appreciate the time. Very quickly, yes, it's a real issue out there. Putting dredging aside, the snowpacks up there, with the velocity of water that could come down, could severely jeopardize the infrastructure of the biggest commercial fishing harbour in Canada, just because

Fisheries committee  I will point out that, as you've just said regarding the frustrations of many people express, it's these volunteers who are at the front line. We're the ones, as Osborne suggested, on that dock having to listen to the same rhetoric of the same complaints, and what can we do? I w

Fisheries committee  Okay. I just want to point out that the management of these harbours is under a lease, and the lease clearly stipulates what the Crown is responsible for and what the harbour authority is responsible for. We're doing our part for the day-to-day things. We're asking where the rest

Fisheries committee  That's why we're here today.

Fisheries committee  I wouldn't know where to start with that. Steveston Harbour, where I come from, is the biggest harbour in Canada. With that come a multitude of things. There is environmental cleanup; there's the provision of services for environmental recycling; there are a lot of things like

Fisheries committee  That's correct, sir.

Fisheries committee  Yes.