I would mention at this point that—and I'm sorry if this annoys my friends across the way—the housing accelerator fund may have an application here in the permitting process, because municipal permitting has been kind of—
Yeah, I know; you're shaking in your boots.
Municipal permitting has been long held up as a barrier to getting homes built. It sounds like when it comes to the electricity sector or your sector that, again, simple things have to go through the same hoops as the more complicated things. One thing that the housing accelerator fund is helping municipalities do is turn to AI to deal with those really simple things. Things that would otherwise take months through the regular permitting process can be done in a week.
That's one of the things that I'm going to put down on my list of recommendations that the DFO look into to alleviate what you've been talking about, because you're not the only ones who've been talking to us about that.
Mr. Porter, when we reviewed the act back in 2019, one of the things we noted from the 2012 one was that Mr. Harper's government offered protection for commercially important stocks of fish. If that stock became degraded to the point that it was no longer commercially viable, then our understanding was that those protections were removed.
Was that your feeling at that time? If so, have the 2019 changes brought a bit more clarity and, if you like, a little more effectiveness to the whole regime around protecting stocks?