Personally I think it's reasonable to expect reasonably consistent application of the act. At the end of the day, what that comes down to, of course, is that we are a confederation, and in its wisdom or otherwise, Parliament decided that fisheries would be subject to national parliamentary oversight. So the key is to make sure that in fact we're not allowing different regions to essentially pit their habitat protections or water quality protections against each other to varying extents to leverage maybe some kind of advantage or otherwise. Actually having a consistent national law ensures that basic national standard and that all Canadians then are entitled to that same protection and quality of act.
On October 31st, 2016. See this statement in context.