I would concur entirely.
Consultation is a lengthy discussion between at least two parties, with an opportunity to ask questions and to have questions answered. If you do not understand the answers or the implications of the answers, you work with each other, and at the end of the day, in our case, you walk away from a consultation understanding the implications of the amendments being proposed.
I realize and fully appreciate that senior DFO staff are under a very tight deadline in this. While I can respect that, and maybe have sympathy for that—