I have five minutes, and I'm going to try to get three questions in here.
I will go to Mr. Doubleday, but I'll have you answer last, okay?
On the slide about groundwork for the future, you speak about FMAs and funding arrangements, including quota of fish that could be entered into. Could you explain to me why that's not contrary to the Larocque decision? You're going to be last.
Mr. Stringer, Mr. Bevan was here the other day and said that we continue to fund hatcheries on the west coast because of the commercial impact, yet we don't fund them on the east coast because it's more of a recreational fishery. We're not at odds with the principle that hatcheries have a positive impact on fisheries; it's just that what I got from it was the size--commercial versus recreational. So I want you to explain to me why we aren't continuing to fund hatcheries on the east coast.
I'd like to go to Ms. Kirby for my first one.
I appreciate the fact that you're going forward with environmental assessments, reviews, and so on. What I'm finding is that businesses and community groups, and whatever, that are going forward with projects are very willing to comply with whatever stipulations are being brought forward. When these things take place, it's the timing of getting information back from the various departments. I know that you do this; a lot of it is interdepartmental.
I've had a couple of groups that have missed opportunities because they couldn't get information back on habitat restoration, and what have you. In some of the cookie-cutter stuff, where we're going forward with infrastructure projects, there were timelines such that the federal secretariat would get back to them within 30 days on an answer, after all the information was gathered. I thought they worked well, and the group could work, knowing the timelines.
My question to you first, if you could answer it, is, do you anticipate that there will be timelines and measurements in whatever is going forward so that we can better serve community groups or businesses that want to advance projects, so that they know what timelines they have to deal with?