Okay. We'll move on from there.
I would ask both of you to think about best practices for drain ditch maintenance and to consult with the other parties who have a stake in this, that is, the people who have a concern about fish habitat. What are best practices that can absolutely minimize the risk of damages in terms of timing, the way it's done, and all of that? I think it would be very worthwhile for you to do that and submit something to this committee so that we can at least initiate a discussion.
In terms of restoring HADD protections and all the rest, we heard early on and have heard in other discussions some of the reasons the changes were made. Those changes were made, basically, to assist municipalities in their public works.
Chief Chamberlin, I don't know if any of your communities got tangled up in additional costs and times for having to have a more stringent layer of analysis done on public works. Maybe you could comment on that. If we return them, we obviously would like to try to avoid the problems we had before. Were the problems related to the stringency of the regulations or were they simply related to the lack of resources in the DFO to process things in a more timely manner and to help municipalities avoid some of these costs that they clearly were facing as a result of the old regulations?
You can both answer that.