Fisheries committee  In the interest of time, I'll just say we did receive a top-up of our budget about three years ago to deal with a gap that had built up over the years, primarily due to salary increases without budget increases. Again, we are adequately resourced for the types of investigations

Fisheries committee  Go ahead, Mr. Harvey.

Fisheries committee  Go ahead, Mr. Harvey.

Fisheries committee  Go ahead.

Fisheries committee  The short answer, Mr. Chair, is that the mandate that Parliament has given us in the CTAISB Act is to advance transportation safety in the four federally regulated modes of transports: air, rail, marine and pipeline. So no, we don't investigate environmental incidents, except to

Fisheries committee  —to cause the environmental damage and how the initial response was handled to minimize the consequences to people and property.

Fisheries committee  Again, the short answer is that the TSB cannot attribute blame or determine civil or criminal liability, so we have to stay outside of that realm.

Fisheries committee  Maybe I'll step in first. Mr. Chair, again, we can't form an opinion unless we investigate something. We have investigated, for example, issues relating to fatigue of watchkeepers and made recommendations with respect to that, but to make a general comment about whether masters

Fisheries committee  I'm going to ask Mr. Harvey to address that. I will say that we use the word “recommendation” very carefully because it's a board recommendation, and I'm certainly not in a position to make any recommendations with respect to that.

Fisheries committee  Again, I will wait to see what comes out of this particular investigation.

Fisheries committee  I think I'll answer that one, Mr. Chair. The role that Parliament has carved out for us is very clear. It's to investigate safety, transportation safety and those things that will make marine safety and the other modes better for all. We really limit ourselves to those sorts of

Fisheries committee  Mr. Harvey, can you take that, please?

Fisheries committee  In fact, other recommendations have been outstanding, some of them even since the 1990s, related to marine. A lot of them right now are focused on fishing safety, relating, for example, to the carriage of life-saving appliances, stability assessments for smaller and mid-sized fis

Fisheries committee  In some cases, the regulator may not agree with the recommendation and we may agree to disagree, Mr. Chair, but we always track them. If we feel that the residual risk is sufficient, we keep them active. If we feel the residual risk is lower but we're not ready to close the recom

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I can speak to the incidents. How comprehensive the response was and whether all levels of government were involved may be for others to judge. Certainly, during the loss of the B.C. ferry Queen of the North in 2006, it was the local community in Hartley Ba