Finance committee  That's a good question. I would have to say that it's different. If you look at actual structural sounding, I would say that Rustico would be at the top of the list. If you're talking dredging and the need for a new harbour or a long-term solution, you're talking Malpeque. You a

Finance committee  I would agree. I hate to say that, but I would agree. My background is in law enforcement and emergency services for 25 years, and I have dealt with that first-hand. Sometimes measures aren't put in place or infrastructure isn't corrected until somebody has come into harm's way

Finance committee  It is something that has been kicked down the road for roughly 20 years. Wayne has been a good advocate for this. I think we need to look at either repositioning the channel out through the dunes, working with the department, the environment groups, and actually putting a straigh

Finance committee  Victoria is a high priority. I'm very familiar with that as it's in my riding. It was dredged last year. You have to look at the island and the way the sand shifts. On the north side of Malpeque, of course, it's more volatile than on the south side. We need to have a geographical

Finance committee  I would say that regionally they have, but not in Ottawa. The region realizes how that's an important study, I believe, but I don't think it's made its way up to Ottawa to the people that should be hearing it.

Finance committee  It's a start, Ted. It's a start to recognize that we need more in DFO when it comes to fisheries. I can take you to various harbours across Prince Edward Island. If you were to give me $15 million today based on that $300 million, I could use that $15 million basically overnigh

Finance committee  We work very closely with the AFF funding. I've had a conversation with Minister Jordan on that. I suggested to her last year that I would rather see us start the AFF funding phase two sooner than later. We only have two years left on AFF, so we need to recognize that. In P.E.I.

Finance committee  That's a very good question. The example I would use would be the old HMCS Cormorant, which was decommissioned from the Canadian navy and then sat derelict in Nova Scotia for many years. When we have a piece of infrastructure like that sitting there and basically rotting away at

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Gabriel. I only caught part of the question because I had to switch over for the translator. It's the same type of problem that we're seeing over in our area too. I think that a long-term approach recognizing the age of our infrastructure is needed moving

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Gabriel. I wouldn't really be prepared to speak on that today. I think that would be best put forth to the health minister for the province. He would be the best person to deal with that. It wouldn't be fair for me to answer on behalf of the province or the

Finance committee  No. That's fine.

Finance committee  Yes. Thank you, Ed. A couple of years ago, after travelling the province when I first got into this portfolio, I started to hear from the industry directly and to see, for example, the condition of our wharves and harbours across Prince Edward Island. Then we started monthly mee

Finance committee  DFO is doing the best they can. The problem is that you have A-base and B-base funding. The A-base funding has never actually increased. Year after year, DFO is consistently allocated the same amount of funds, which they try to spread across the repairs. If I do some rough math a

Finance committee  Yes. When we first looked at the program and developed it, and looked at what we were hearing from the other provinces, we were thinking $750 million over five years. That would be distributed across the maritime region and should bring us up to a level of good repair for the fut

Finance committee  Malpeque harbour is centrally located up in Wayne's area. I'm very familiar with it. It sees basically 44 fishing boats or fishing fleets of lobster going out every day during the season. Probably there are 10 to 15 other aquaculture industry users there. The problem in Malpeque