Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
Again, on page 14 of the report, one of the biggest concerns is that scientists and the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans are making quota allocations or decisions on fisheries using unreliable information.
Regarding the maintenance concerns of those vessels, opening up a limited fishery in an area that hasn't been properly surveyed and without having the scientific information could be very damaging to fish stocks. So I would hope we don't see something like that again.
But Mr. Da Pont, in a previous committee you and I talked a lot about the moving of the icebreakers from the Halifax region over into St. John's and Argentia. And you have indicated that though there's a certain limited cost in the one area, it won't be much of a cost at all--although people within your department have publicly said that's simply not true.
You issued those reports of the cost analysis to the DFO committee. I was hoping you'd be able to bring one to this committee as well, and that the committee, Mr. Chairman, would ask the Auditor General to look into this prior to the actual move happening in order to ensure that what they say about the cost will definitely be the truth, and that we won't find out six months later, “Oh well, we didn't know about this dredging, or the expansion of a wharf” or something of that nature. We know those things have to happen. But they're being very optimistic that the cost will be almost negligible for the St. John's area.
My question for you is this--and this is all a matter of trust now, Mr. Da Pont and Madam d'Auray. How much money are you going to go to the Treasury Board and ask for? You said you need more resources. You should know the answer of how much money Treasury Board needs to give you in order for you to do your job, so that we don't have a report like this again in the future.
Is it $10 million, $20 million?