Will Greaves

Thank you. In our last 30 seconds or so, let me ask you this: The bill would make it an offence to transfer a vessel if the owner is “reckless as to whether” the buyer has “the ability, resources or intent to maintain” it. Can you speak to what message you feel your bill sends to boat owners in Canada who view selling their boat for a dollar to anybody who comes along as an appropriate disposal [more]

Thank you.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Good afternoon to all our witnesses. Thank you for being here. I'd like to go back to some of the fundamentals around the issue that we're trying to tackle, broadly speaking, through this legislation, which my colleague from West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country has brought forward with this private member's bill. In a situation in which there is a [more]

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Good afternoon, colleagues. Good afternoon, MP Weiler. Thank you so much for bringing forward this private member's bill and for giving us the opportunity to talk about an issue that I know is of great concern to residents in your part of the country, which is close to my part of the country, and our coastal communities, where this issue is a surprisingly [more]

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you to the witnesses. I'll go to you, Ms. Chamberlain. In British Columbia, around other recent modern land claim or treaty negotiations, or other self-government agreements, we've unfortunately seen efforts to misinform and confuse members of the public about what the implications of those agreements would entail. In many instances, efforts to [more]

Thank you for that response. I want to pick up on one piece of what you just said. I feel that, in many communities where this isn't as relevant an issue, there isn't an appreciation of the costs and the quite specific technical expertise that could be required to remove these boats from our shores and communities once they've been abandoned. Certainly, in Victoria, I have people quite [more]

Thank you.