You can always do both. You can always amend legislation. There are no timelines in the legislation to put any kind of discipline on consultations. There are no timelines on extensions, as you know. Administratively, no statistics are being collected that are instructive on consultations, and therefore no accountability can be had. When we have complaints, I get the complaint against the institution that makes the request for a consultation, but the consulting institution is not the subject of the complaint. If the institution that's consulting does not get the result of the consultation on time, they are the ones in deemed refusal. They are the ones that have the bad record. The way the system is set up administratively for consultations, there's no real data and there's no accountability and there's nothing in the legislation. I suspect it's a major cause of delays.
On March 30th, 2010. See this statement in context.