I'm not sure about the downloading. In my mind, the grants would need to be federal grants because it's federal legislation and a federal imperative that's being dropped on them.
I work quite a bit with municipalities on things like drainage and those kinds of issues. Really, there's not much of a conflict with the drainage issues that we found. The same things that create problems for fish habitat create problems for drainage as well.
There are culverts that block migration and raise water levels behind them at the same time. The grass that plugs drainage ditches and impedes drainage is no different from the mechanism that occurs when that grass dies and rots, because it then robs the oxygen from the water and degrades a critical habitat.
We've found that there's a lot of room for common ground. I've done a lot of work on those issues in Langley, the District of Kent, and Chilliwack, all areas that I'm sure you know.
With respect to the ATK, aboriginal traditional knowledge, I certainly would not want to be interpreted as wanting to discount that or not use it that. I think “the best available knowledge” would certainly include that.