No. There are two levels of government working here. Land and Water B.C. is part of the provincial government, and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans is the overseer of habitat issues. They authorized it through section 35 of the Fisheries Act of Canada. Through the provincial emergency program, Land and Water B.C. paid to have this causeway put in. The causeway was simply to get the vehicles across to a gravel bar that was authorized for extraction.
