--up front. Due to costs, any proponent for a major project will not want to do detailed design work for more than one alternative.
We want the CEA Agency to kind of review the extent of the information, ask up front, and then take a lead role in saying, “Yes, we understand you need the information, but that detailed information will come later in the process.” It can come later in the process.
We've seen in the city of Ottawa, in a non-water and waste water context, how that can work, with the north-south light rail transit proposal. That project received federal environmental assessment, with the understanding that the detailed permit-type questions would be answered further on in the process. They got their federal EA approval, and then the city cancelled the project. But that was one example of where the CEA Agency took a really forward-thinking approach to the problem.