Thank you, Madam Chair. So -- I mean, there are two parts to it I suppose. Firstly, if there's an interest in having DFO involved, I mean, the Department of ITI can be a liaison point where whether under tourism, whether under fisheries, potentially Department of Municipal and Community Affairs I imagine could certainly go and advocate to our counterparts to say, look, we would like your officials and staff to come and -- come to our region and look at what prospects there might be, do their own internal assessments and government processes that exist within the federal government. We would not be in a position to build things in a waterway without the Department of Fisheries and Oceans approving that. You've probably heard the Minister of Infrastructure talking about the harbour restoration happening outside of Hay River. It required approval from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans for them to be able to go and do that even though it's the coast guard are the ones that needs it. So it's really getting them to be taking an interest. Again, I can say they -- it has been a bit of a challenge to get them to take an interest in putting some additional collection points for fisheries. Notwithstanding that we have all this potential in the North for a strong fishery, it's been very challenging to get their attention on this issue and to get them to come up and identify potential sites. And then we go through our capital planning process so that we could build the docks or build a marina or build a site. But we're not -- to get through our planning process, we would certainly not want to not go too far down that path if the Department of Fisheries and Oceans is only going to say, no, you cannot have access to that waterway. So, you know, they give us the okay, then we can build whatever it is on the land piece to access it but we really need them involved to identify an appropriate site in the water, and then we can build on the land. I don't know if that makes a bit more sense. Thank you.
Caroline Wawzonek on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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