Prescribed works is a portion of the law as it stands, and it can incorporate prescribed set standards for doing certain works that can be regulated through the law. That would be one way to do that.
I'm not a lawyer, but I would assume it would make it quite a bit clearer when you violated, because you were violating a specific regulation that laid out exactly how you should do something and what's prescribed therein. That would be one way to move forward with that.
There were also operational statements used under the former habitat protection program that could be repurposed and continue to be used. I know industry has been quite concerned that those were lost. That's not an issue about law the way it's written, it's just a program decision by DFO to move away from those operational statements. Yes, that's important to move, and that's why I was saying it's not just the law, but it's how you build the program to protect fish and fish habitat in this country.