The problems with the current act have been sort of discussed. There is some uncertainty around some wording. Two big parts of the story today are that these problems are not all new. A lot of these difficulties are going way back, at least 15 years, and that's really important. Clearly, after 2012 we had further reduction of DFO's oversight, but this is a long slide; this isn't anything that's new.
I think a year ago, someone had taken a picture of a giant excavator, it looked like, in the water of the Oldman River in Alberta. The question was whether or not there was going to be an enforcement action. To my knowledge, because we know that in 2014-15 there were no charges, it appears that the giant excavator being in the middle of the Oldman River Dam wasn't sufficient, permanent alteration or destruction to fish habitat. If, on the other hand, tomorrow the department decided that it was going to take compliance and enforcement very seriously and publish that, making it very clear to all Canadians that in the meantime, while Parliament ponders its changes, it was going to rigorously enforce that prohibition, I think you could get a lot of the way, even with its current wording.
A big part of the story is also that there is the law in the books, as my colleagues said, and then there's the law, in terms of how it's implemented and enforced. I do believe, and I do think the figures support this notion that in addition to whatever changes there will be to the wording, the signal has been sent that this law is not being implemented and is not going to be enforced. If you change that, you might get halfway.