I'll be really quick. We could come back, Mr. Chairman, with a briefing on this if you wanted us to, because it is an area of considerable concern. But we have put in place an environmental process modernization thing to address as much of that issue as we can. We now have an operational statement regime whereby if people file the operational statement, they don't have to go through all the processes. That deals, I hope, with a number of the issues of the nature you're talking about. As the minister said, we're now putting in place a monitoring regime, and as long as people abide by it, so be it.
The Navigable Waters Protection Act at Transport Canada, which used to be with us, moved by a government decision on December 12, 2003, but we're still trying to work closely with them. The government had money in the last budget. A deputy ministers task force in the last year or so has been trying to come to grips with how we bring this stuff together in a more coordinated way.
There's money in this budget to try to ensure that departments that are heavily into it, including us, get some capacity money, but also that there is a process put in place to better coordinate this stuff, so that folks aren't dealing with Transport Canada this week and then we show up next week saying you've had a nice try on the navigation stuff, but now you've got to worry about the fish stuff. So there is money in this budget to try to fix it.
But we'd be very happy, either for the individual or for the committee, to give a presentation at some point on what we're trying to do, and, more broadly, what the government is trying to do, because it is a very important issue and it is the subject of a lot of frustration. Some of it is historical and some of it is real now, and we're trying to make it better.