When we look back at the reason the changes were made about five years ago, the federal government of the day was very interested in giving a boost to the economy by getting many public works done. There was a concern that was expressed by many rural municipalities about what they saw as the onerous red tape that added time and money to the cost of doing these public works.
If we're looking at modernizing the act, if we were to preserve a system that allowed public works to go forward in a more expeditious and less costly way, what would that take? Would that take a streamlining of the regs if we were to reintroduce many of the foundational protections that you say were taken away? Do we go back to them and try and fix them up, or is it a matter of just simply more resources for the DFO to go in and do the inspections and analyses, or is it a combination of the two?
I'll ask you both to respond to that.