It just makes everything so much more difficult, because we know they are the most important player overall in terms of what happens with salmon on the coast, yet they're not there. We're always having to make decisions with the idea that we still have to run it by the department. If the department were there, actually being part of that decision-making....
It's inefficient. We want some efficiency in this. We want this money to be spent wisely, so let's find processes that can actually make decisions quickly that aren't going to lead to all sorts of conflicts. You're not going to get all sorts of lobbying and campaigns going for and against and all that. Get people actually making the decisions that are going to stick, and you're going to spend your money a lot more intelligently.