Fisheries committee  The cost of acquiring the vessels—

Fisheries committee  When we buy a vessel domestically, we don't pay an import duty on it, so we would show the purchase price contract. By separating these figures out, we can actually make a contract-to-contract comparison on a purchase of a vessel. If we had put those all together, then we'd have

Fisheries committee  Pardon me? The other two dates?

Fisheries committee  They won't be this year. The first ship will come into service this year, and the other two, I believe, will follow in 2019 and 2020, respectively.

Fisheries committee  The first icebreaker will come into service several weeks from now, before Christmas. The other two icebreakers will be undergoing a more extensive refit, and they will come into service later. I'm just going to check the dates to make sure that I don't give you wrong dates. In

Fisheries committee  All of the large vessels on the west coast will be outfitted with tow kits. I believe there are seven, off the top of my head. If that's wrong, I'll correct it. Will they be as capable as the two we're leasing? Not in every case. The two that we're leasing have very high bollard

Fisheries committee  That's a fair statement.

Fisheries committee  The station at St. Anthony has already been refurbished, and there has been a bay-class boat delivered to that station. It's operational today, as we speak. As the Minister said, the station at Old Perlican is on schedule to be opened and functioning next year, and Twillingate wi

Fisheries committee  I would simply add that the sub-station has received in excess of 22,000 calls, and I think that indicates that there's a volume to be managed through that office. Very important to us is the 24-7 capacity that it offers, and while it supplements the work of the JRCC in Halifax,

Fisheries committee  That's exactly right, Minister. By separating out the $610,000, it actually gives a line of sight on how much the contract is for the delivery of the vessels, including bringing the first of the three vessels to a regulatory standard that will allow us to use it this year. Much o

Foreign Affairs committee  Your comments are interesting and well taken. The American Coast Guard finds its very earliest roots as a cutter service to enforce excise tax, whereas the Canadian Coast Guard finds its very earliest roots as a search and rescue and life saving organization. Those differences in

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes.

Foreign Affairs committee  Perhaps I'll start from the civilian perspective. As was said earlier, there's a good argument to be made, in my view, that sovereignty is not under threat in the Canadian Arctic. The commercial shipping perspective on sovereignty might be something like this. Sovereignty is no

Foreign Affairs committee  Perhaps I'd start with what is a truism for mariners and I don't mean this glibly, so please know that. There are many places where ships go that are remote and that we're responsible for, including search and rescue taskings to the middle of the Atlantic or to the middle of the

Foreign Affairs committee  Perhaps I can start with the first part of the question and then turn to Ms. Weldon for the Arctic Council aspects. I take that point about the existence of the ITK and the other northern governments. I think that not only those agreements, but some of our southern modern treati