The Cheam Band has been active in the gravel business for many years. However, on this particular project, Cheam did not do the work at the Big Bar site. That work was done by the province, DFO and the City of Chilliwack, and supervised by DFO and the province. The contractor was a non-aboriginal.
Cheam thought—I'm actually a Cheam band member, as well as a local contractor, and a nephew of both Sid and Chester—that the project was too risky at the time, and it was going to be too costly. There was no funding available then for a crossing. At that point, we had a three-year permit that we were going to be able to exercise if we didn't feel it fit this year, and this year we weren't considering it. At the time, the province saw that the gravel budget wasn't being met. I think they saw that it was important to move ahead on it, and they took it upon themselves to do so.
So at this particular time we are not involved in that project.