First of all, I think you and I do agree on the importance of the regulatory barriers in terms of impacting that growth. I think that is actually a major factor.
There are a number of things that I worry about, even going beyond the interprovincial one, which I think is absolutely correct. There's been very slow development on interprovincial barriers to trade in terms of trying to reduce them. There's been the TILMA in western Canada. Alberta actually said they were going to unilaterally get rid of a number of these barriers, hoping that other provinces would take it up. It's been a very slow process. A wonderful book written two years ago that won the Donner Prize really went through the history of this issue. You realize how slow it is in developing.
There are other issues too. There's the difficulty of getting anything built in this country and the time taken. I talked to people in the condo industry recently. In Canada, it can take a number of years before a condo building will go through all the approvals and get built, while in the United States it's a year and a half.
We could do a lot more in terms of our access to tidewater. I've argued for a long time that we should be looking at—