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  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  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  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  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  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.