Thank you, Mr. Weiler, for the question.

The issue is, whether it's a small boat.... As Mr. Lee stated, they were able to take them out of the water, crunch them up and dispose of them. That's okay if it's a smaller size of vessel, but the challenge comes more when it is larger, such as the larger one he mentioned or in Átl'ḵa7tsem or Howe Sound.

There's a lot of industry that happens with logging activities—log booms, barges and vessels of more significant size than recreational. As I mentioned in my statement too, there are barges, scows and other larger vessels that may be going up to the Squamish terminal. It's a little bit different. We're not that far away from Pender Harbour, but we are in a different part of the sea.

What happens to those larger vessels? This committee has heard of ship-breaking facilities on Vancouver Island and Union Bay that are a bit problematic because of contaminations and pollution.

There's a ship-breaking facility in the Howe Sound area that is trying to get under way, but it's being met with a lot of requirements. Sometimes those requirements are onerous. They need to have environmental assessments done. They need to have an archaeological assessment done, typically by a first nations interest. Then DFO, Transport Canada and others may get involved. It becomes a bit of a long, onerous process.

The federal government could help in this by, first of all, identifying that.... Certainly we want to prevent it from happening, and we don't want them down at the bottom of the ocean. When situations occur and it's a larger vessel, we need ship-breaking facilities.

I would ask the federal government to recognize this and perhaps empower agencies like DFO and Transport Canada to be part of the solution and to really collaborate with all levels of government. As many on this committee have heard, in British Columbia, it is this quagmire of provincial, federal and different authorities that—

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