I think there were a lot of questions that day, and maybe it was my own failing in conveying the seriousness and the importance of navigation, but unfortunately, the proposed amendments we see in Bill C-10 don't seem to take into consideration any of the concerns I was trying to raise or did raise that day with the committee.
The environmental assessment process is gone. The transparency and decision-making is gone. Centralizing control and decision-making in Ottawa has been added to the act. The consultation, which we did talk about a great deal that day, never happened. We did talk about the possibility of reaching out to communities outside the Ontario region that don't have the ability to come to Ottawa on a moment's notice, and that consultation didn't happen.
Before coming tonight, I had an opportunity to speak to some other people in the community whom I know, and to my knowledge, there hasn't been any outreach to the first nations communities, to the provinces, so it concerns me that a year later a lot of the concerns we raised that day with the committee still stands.