Absolutely. Consulting with people who have hands-on experience with the process and using that as the basis for making recommendations to the minister is far superior to the minister's making recommendations to the people who are actually involved in the process.
In terms of our sector, as environmentalists, we don't have the same access to resources to bring people together and move them around the country to actually do that. So it was very useful when Environment Canada actually brought people together and asked us what kind of input we wanted to make.
I'm not talking about the Sierra Club of Canada or the David Suzuki Foundation or Greenpeace, which are big organizations that have big budgets. I'm talking about the group in Lethbridge and the group in Yukon, which don't have a budget or paid staff but are actively involved in the process, dealing with issues and projects in their communities. They're being deprived of a voice in this process because of the way the government is behaving.