The more recent projects that have been entering the assessment process are being better tailored. Tailoring has always been a big issue for us. It means focusing on issues that are unique to a project and not asking for information about every imaginable feature, many of which are common from one mine to the next. We have often questioned why the agency would need this information yet again when it knows from experience what it's looking at.
We have started to see that tailoring in the last couple of years. It took a while. It was one of the promises of the original act, and we didn't see it materialize until the last couple of years. As a result of the tailoring and the agreements between jurisdictions, we are seeing improvements in efficiency.
There's a promise, particularly with the new legislation before Parliament, that we will get to permitting decisions faster. We're hopeful that this will also be the case. Sometimes, such as for a Fisheries Act authorization, it can take two or two and a half years. That's after your impact assessment. If that can be reduced, that will also make a big difference.