I think a couple of things are coming out here. One is that the tool box, particularly in relation to enforcement, is quite good. The problem here is at the level of administration and policy in how those tools are used by the department. I would keep that in mind. There may not be a legislative fix here in this particular area of enforcement, because the provisions of the act are very comprehensive already.
The levels of enforcement are complicated territory, at least in relation to the provinces. Much of the enforcement effort ends up focused within the federal jurisdiction for a variety of reasons. I continue to be concerned, as I have been for a long time, particularly about the opaque nature of what happens under the administrative and equivalency agreements, where one way or another enforcement administration is effectively delegated to provinces and then the information on what's happening dries up.
As I mentioned before, we're seeing a new round of equivalency agreements come into the equation around coal-fired electricity and methane from industrial sources, which again begs the question: If we accept the provincial regulations as equivalent to what has been done under CEPA, then what do we know about how those provincial regulations then get enforced? At the moment, we seem to know next to nothing, and it's a “don't ask, don't tell” situation.