I wouldn't say problems with environmental clearance, but there is no question that Canada, and Ontario in particular, is a very complex and difficult place to do business. In fact, one of the recommendations from the Barton report is to create a sort of concierge service to help walk very large investments through this morass of complex and overlapping regulatory and approval processes.
If you were to go to Louisiana or Texas, that's exactly the way it takes place: here is the guy or the gal who is going to help get your application through. If there are problems, it's not going to go through, but they are going to tell you today what your problem is, and then they'll get it to the next stage.
We have situations where people will wait.... I can tell this group—it's public knowledge—that to achieve an environmental approval in Ontario today, the wait time is 700 days. We're talking routine environmental approvals, not major applications for new projects. If I put in a new piece of equipment that reduces my environmental footprint, or if I would like to do that, I will wait, on average, over 700 days for approval.
That gives you a sense of the complexity of doing business.