You learn almost immediately. In any environmental law course in Canada, you learn very quickly that the Fisheries Act, in section 35 in particular, has always been regarded as one of the most powerful environmental laws that we have in Canada at the federal level. Part of that is because it's a bit of a fluke of history, in the sense that shortly before that, the U.S., in what was called its environmental decade, passed five federal laws, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the National Environmental Policy Act....
When it came to Canada, we already had the Fisheries Act and we already had a prohibition on the deposit of deleterious substances, so that became our de facto federal water pollution law. I think the thinking was to sort of buttress it with a prohibition against physical impacts to fish and fish habitat, so it has always been a mainstay of environmental law at the federal level here in Canada.