Fisheries committee  I would like to support what Ms. Dansereau said. Every day, we work in close cooperation with revenue-generating harbour authorities.The revenues that these authorities generate have increased. They have agreed to work with us to solve the problem of insufficient resources. To do

Fisheries committee  I'd just add that like all government departments we have a grievance process in place, with first, second, and third levels. It's rare that we don't solve these issues at the third level--in other words, they don't go to arbitration, they don't go to the Human Rights Commission,

Fisheries committee  Yes. It definitely is a work in progress, and I agree with Claire's response. We are certainly going to be receptive to both your first report and the ultimate report to give us some guidance in that regard. We are going to be looking at things in response again to the long-term

Fisheries committee  We have discussed the situation a number of times. Our approach as a department is to spend our small craft harbour money where the needs are most urgent from the point of view of health and safety. As you know, we are going to receive more money in the 2008 budget for divestit

Fisheries committee  We don't have a budget per se that's allocated specifically for dredging. We consider the dredging requirements along with all the other competing demands for our budget. If I recall, in previous testimony to this committee, we actually subsequently provided some information on

Fisheries committee  Yes. Just in terms of a general question on investment planning, our capital budget, as you saw in the slide, is close to $300 million. We have a number of centres of expertise in the department that we work with in terms of allocating the major capital. The largest one, of cour

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the question. As you rightly point out, the enablers are allocated over all of the program areas. It's a rather complicated algorithm, I guess, that's used, and if you want me to get into the details of that, I'd have to do some homework and come back to speak to

Fisheries committee  Again, if we look at slide 6 of the presentation, there's an item there on the 2007 cost efficiencies. That relates, as I said in passing, to “The Way Forward”, the Public Works and Government Services Canada procurement reform. These savings have been booked right across governm

Fisheries committee  The only thing I would add is that if you look at the report on plans and priorities on page 12--and the deputy is quite right, the final figures aren't in yet--it shows the planned spending figure. It would include the supplementary estimates A and B. Our total planned spending

Fisheries committee  I'm not familiar with the one you're referring to specifically, but I guess an answer to your question is yes, it can happen. I think the Digby harbour is one I would put forward as an example of that. It's still not resolved, but that was originally a Transport Canada harbour an

Fisheries committee  Thanks, Deputy. Good morning, Chair and members. I'm going to be speaking fairly briefly to the overview of the 2008-09 estimates. I'm on page 3. You can see what the deputy has already mentioned, the increase between last year's estimates and the current year's estimates. T

Fisheries committee  Basically, the short answer is that right now—not to suggest we aren't spending any money on lighthouses, because we are, for health and safety reasons, obviously, on the ones we have staffed, and I alluded to this—we are spending a minimal amount of money. If this bill goes thro

Fisheries committee  Have these sites already been divested, then, from the federal government?

Fisheries committee  Going back to an earlier discussion, using the federal contaminated sites action plan funding, my understanding is that we would have to bring these up to a reasonable standard, which would include addressing contamination.

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, you just alluded to the fact that this is probably a year old. Those cost estimates were predicated on the bill at that time. There have been some revisions that have brought the estimation down somewhat.