Absolutely. That principle of prior allocation—first in time, first in right—is really tragic, and it's so inefficient. It does not make sense to allocate something based on conditions of a century ago, so yes, that principle needs to be revisited.
There are one or two fortunate things. One is that during the drought of 2001 in southern Alberta, when it was clear there was going to be a shortage of water, there was a meeting of the major irrigation districts in southern Alberta, along with the provincial water master, who said, “Okay, we're going to have a shortage. What shall we do?” The irrigation director said, “It's easy; with first in time, first in right, we get ours first.” He then had a list of the agencies that would be cut off first . Right at the top of that list was the food processing plant of Lamb Weston, a multi-million-dollar facility that utilized the product from the irrigation crops. The irrigation district said, “We obviously can't have that cut off.” This is the type of leverage that I am hopeful will allow us to revisit this obsolete historic precedent.