That's an excellent question, Mr. Chairman. It was getting to the next point I would make, which is that this is run by Environment Canada as a very targeted program. Therefore, the amount of the court order is directly tied to the project, down to the dollar. In addition, the default, the beginning point, is that it should be a local environmental restoration project targeted at the damage that actually occurred.
What the EDF administrators have found is that almost all of the time this works in a good fashion, and there are cases where the courts will direct or indicate that the fine must go to a specified project. It goes to the EDF but it must be for a particular project. Most of the time that has worked out all right, but there have been instances where the court gave direction and it was not actually possible in practice either to get any proposals from anyone to do the work or it was not just a viable project at all, and I have some examples of that.
One example that stays in my mind is an order to restore a tributary of the Barbara Weit River. It was found that actually that tributary had dried up and there was no possibility to do the work. What that necessitated was to return to the court, open up the court's order and release that restriction respecting the funds, which tied things up for approximately three years.
I believe what the provision is trying to do is to allow for some flexibility when necessary, but indeed the program is run in a very targeted manner.