Fisheries committee  I'll ask Superintendent Bain to speak specifically to what we're doing on the west coast. We did a workload study in 2009. We had outside resources help us develop the methodology for the study. The number of stands or desks that manage a particular area or particular task in th

Fisheries committee  Yes, I can Mr. Chair. I'm here today with my deputy commissioner of operations, Mario Pelletier, and superintendent Brian Bain, who is the superintendent for MCTS in western region.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. It is my pleasure to be here today to discuss the planned closure of marine communications and traffic services, MCTS, in Comox. I have introduced, but I'd like to again introduce my two colleagues. Canadian Coast Guard's deputy commissioner of operations,

Fisheries committee  First, the search and rescue system in Vancouver harbour is working exactly as we had expected. Vancouver remains the most serviced port in Canada. In terms of this particular rescue, whether the coast guard had been the on-scene commander or the federal monitoring officer, we w

Fisheries committee  I can ask Trevor to speak to the toxicity.

Fisheries committee  Those cuts I can't speak to, but our chief financial officer can. There has been no reduction to environmental response capacity. It was a one-time accounting for the Brigadier General Zalinski operation. The A-base budget for the coast guard for environmental response has not b

Fisheries committee  I know the individual you're speaking of and we have done significant work to clean up many of his vessels. The private member's bill is admirable in its intent but it doesn't get to the problem. Other jurisdictions, Washington state notably among them, which has enacted similar

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the question. In terms of the incident itself and how it rolled out, at 4:48 p.m., Pacific Time, on April 8, the coast guard received the report of pollution in Vancouver harbour. It was described as a sheen. Port Metro Vancouver tasked a vessel to go look at that

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the question. Davie shipyard we use frequently for vessel life extensions. In fact, we have two vessels in Davie right now. Des Groseilliers, one of our medium icebreakers, is there in order to have a refit done before the Arctic season, and the Earl Grey is now in

Fisheries committee  Davie will not be getting vessels that were awarded under NSPS. Those vessels have been named.

Fisheries committee  The coast guard works in tandem with Transport Canada and Environment Canada. They provide us that piece of information.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Minister. In terms of the ongoing situation in Vancouver harbour, the unified command that managed the spill has now been stood down, but the coast guard has created a project office to work with the Ministry of Environment, first nations, the city, and Environment Ca

Fisheries committee  Yes, that's absolutely the expectation. There is one beach left to open. The rest have been opened over the course of the last three days. We expect the last beach to be open today, but we're not guaranteeing that.

Fisheries committee  In terms of the estimate, that came from Transport Canada and Environment Canada. They have a highly technical and scientific process called the national aerial surveillance program. That flight—

Fisheries committee  We worked—