The challenges were mostly bureaucratic. Before the act was changed, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans was involved with almost every drain maintenance operation that was going on. There was bureaucratic red tape you had to go through, not only with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, but also likely with the local conservation authority. Depending on the province, there might be provincial engagement, as well. When you go to maintain these drains, quite often you have a very limited time window to do that during the summer, when you can do the least damage to the drain.
What was creating the frustration was that the paperwork was taking so much time to get the maintenance done that quite often drain maintenance would be delayed for a year or two. Then, all of a sudden, you have problems with lost productivity at the farm level. The main thing was the bureaucratic holdups on getting the approvals from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.