Thanks, Mr. Stanton.
Welcome, witnesses. I'm certainly pleased to be here with you.
I'm not going to spend a lot of time on appointments. I did that about a year ago when we had Mr. McCrank in front of us. At that time, we discussed the problems pretty fully. I really am pleased that you're reinforcing some of the issues around appointments, but I think we've had a good discussion on it.
Mr. Edjericon, I've heard that one of the issues you have with the present arrangement with the federal government comes after you work through an environmental assessment and then you move it on. The federal government departments interact with you at the assessment level; and when it gets to Ottawa, you have to repeat the process.
Perhaps you could explain that particular issue, for better understanding of the people here about that problem, with the repeat of federal departments on particular environmental assessments.