If I've understood you correctly, you're saying that in some instances, between 2000 and 2003, an environmental assessment could have very well been conducted. There could have been a trigger, however, nothing was triggered. There were reasons for conducting environmental assessments between 2000 and 2003, but nothing was triggered. There were assessments for hydro-electric projects to enable Canada to comply with its commitments made in 1997, in Kyoto, but there wasn't any assessments done for projects related to the oil sands, which are contributing to a very global problem.
That is the way I understand it. Between 2000 and 2003, there were reasons for triggering an assessment, but this did not occur.