Fisheries committee  The regions have what we call RDs of small craft harbours. We're in the process of standardizing those positions at the EX-1, or director level, if you will. As I mentioned earlier, they report in all cases to either the regional director general or, in a couple of cases, to the

Fisheries committee  No, they're fully dedicated to the small craft harbours program.

Fisheries committee  Well, Robert may want to add to this, but I had the opportunity to attend an all-staff meeting of the small craft harbours directorate a year or so ago, and I would categorize the morale as considerably high. There are a lot of so-called lifers in that program who have been with

Fisheries committee  As far as the treaty settlements go in relation to increased use of the harbours by first nations people, we know that's already starting to create some pressure on the capacity of the harbours. Eventually this will have to lead to some increased capacity, which will of course re

Fisheries committee  On the usage of our core fishing harbours, the commercial fishing industry, the aquaculture industry, and first nations are the three pressure points we often refer to in terms of requiring increased capacity. So the interests of first nations are certainly part of that considera

Fisheries committee  Well, again, with time and with additional funding and working with the harbour authorities, we're trying to promote some consolidation within the harbour authority operations too, whereby they would form a group that would look after more than one or two small craft harbours. Th

Fisheries committee  The ongoing commitment we have is to continue to work in a good partnership arrangement with them. As I said earlier, both parties are aware that this partnership could be strengthened considerably by additional resources because they can only do so much, and we only have so much

Fisheries committee  To answer your first question about the rate of deterioration that we are going to face if we do not invest a lot more money, the percentage that is often used—and I look to my colleagues for confirmation—is 2% for every year of delay. Several members of the committee have rais

Fisheries committee  To answer your third question, there is an agency in Quebec that is responsible for economic development. It is called Canada Economic Development. We work with their representatives. We started discussions on divestiture with them two or three weeks ago.

Fisheries committee  Yes, it is.

Fisheries committee  No. Other than agreeing that we should look at the formula, we haven't done any detailed analysis of the existing formula.

Fisheries committee  We get lots of input from our regions, who argue that we need to change the formula so their region gets more, but beyond that, we haven't had any substantive—

Fisheries committee  In the last two or three years, it's probably a little over $100 million, not much more.

Fisheries committee  As things now stand, yes.

Fisheries committee  No, I don't think you'd be right. Do you mean, if we don't divest the harbours we're going to have to continue to spend?