That's correct. We need to keep in mind that this report was prepared in 2009, as you said, so the legislative changes that were made last year and that made the agency legally responsible for the conduct of the comprehensive studies for the larger projects were not in place at the time.
What was behind these comments in the CCME report was a recognition that to improve federal-provincial coordination in environmental assessment, this is not only about having tools to harmonize the process, but it's also about having the federal family and the federal process itself getting in order first before talking about how to harmonize with the provincial jurisdictions.