—our other witnesses, and we've heard it from stakeholder groups.
I'm unsure why. I have been part of the legislative process for a very long time, and not just as a senator but as a senior official at DFO who is knowledgeable about the industry. I know it takes a long time to get any legislation through the two chambers. There are the consultations and the other things that have to happen, and the legal review, obviously.
It's ironic maybe, but more than that, it's disappointing. There was an opportunity for first nations, for communities, for ecological conservation groups and for environmental groups that care about the environment and want to protect the environment, even through simple things like salmon ladders, but through the apparently deliberate rejection of these amendments, particularly on third party habitat banking, there was no respect given to those groups, and we all want to help the environment, especially in the natural resource industries.