I just want to make one further comment to Bertha's. I really want to emphasize that the devolution negotiations, discussions, and the action plan related to streamlining, or whatever the phrase is, for the federal government on environmental legislation were separate but concurrent processes. Never once were the federal devolution negotiators able to provide any substance or details about the Mackenzie Valley legislation in the proposed amendments. So they were very distinct, and they made it very clear that it wasn't part of their mandate and they had no authority to speak to those matters.
Separate from that we had some discussions last winter with federal officials who spoke about process but not details, certainly nothing about the reconstituted board or things of that sort. So it's a surprise to us that now these separate but concurrent processes are bundled into one bill, Bill C-15, when they haven't been treated like that for the previous four or five years.
