I can take a crack at it first.
Some of the issues we face are more about the nature of the application. You mentioned putting HADD back in place. The concern I would have with HADD being back in place across the board, or even if there were exemptions or special policies put in place for municipal works and drainage on farms, is that there's always the problem of interpretation at the local level.
That's where we saw a lot of inconsistency, depending on the DFO office. One would come in and say, no, there's no problem, go ahead. Another one would come in and it would be a whole bureaucratic process that you had to go through. I guess that would be the caution about just putting HADD back in place without having some clear and enforceable guidelines that spell out how you treat a municipal drain.
I'm going to switch hats. I'll go back to 25 years ago I was a municipal councillor and we had the same issue. If a culvert washed out in a storm event, sometimes, with the process for getting that culvert reinstalled, you might go six months with the road completely blocked off. But the damage was done. If you could drop that culvert in the next morning, it would be over. It was like—