Transport committee  That answer is correct, and right now they need a permit to put it in. If you can envision something that's two feet high in the water on a twilight evening, and a water skier coming through into a bay, and this thing is not marked, but stained in a nice dark colour with preserv

Transport committee  If I may, there are varying degrees of bridges, booms, dams, or causeways. I think that's the concern among the clients. Let's say I am building a temporary lumber bridge that I need to put in for a period of three months. It's located south of 60 in northern Saskatchewan or nor

Transport committee  A little more serious, because of its positioning; it's not attached to land. But again, this would be something that would have to be considered, I would suggest, in discussions with clients—and cottagers, definitely, are some of our biggest clients.

Transport committee  I'm sorry...?

Transport committee  No.

Transport committee  That's correct.

Transport committee  That's the total number of staff that have been increased in the navigable waterways.... We haven't brought on new clerical staff or managers simply because we really need to put our limited resources on officers.

Transport committee  Correct.

Transport committee  The organizations I was thinking of were the recreational boaters group, for example, if we're going to regulate private moorings. They're out on the water; they can help in that regard.

Transport committee  All of these works are placed in navigable waters, by their very nature, and we cover all of the markings for the private buoys around them to show that they're here and that there's a navigational channel to get through them. In the case of the larger ones in Prince Edward Islan

Transport committee  So the ISO certifications were pushing that, and that's why we have to try to find a method whereby we can deal with that requirement. In a changed act, one way would be that if you had 3,000 bridges that really mattered, all on a similar type of waterway on a given project, you

Transport committee  Yes. Actually, I think currently there are about 67 people involved in the program directly, including management staff and clerical staff. Of the 67, approximately 40 are officers able to make decisions and to issue approval documents.

Transport committee  It's unlawful to commence work without Navigable Waters Protection Act approval.

Transport committee  We have to enter into discussions with them to determine that. But of this there is no doubt: out of all of the agencies and interested parties you've just named, there is nobody, virtually in the last five years that I've been leading this program, no agency, no government body,

Transport committee  Quite often, these areas they go into.... I'll just use the forestry industry to set an example, because I think it points to our other problem, the other problem being that our current legislation requires that every work--work being every one of those bridges--requires a dedica