The Energy and Utilities Board recognized, when they were doing some of the hearings back in 2004, the essential nature of this water management framework. They realized that CEMA was being rather slow in doing it and said that if CEMA didn't come up with this management framework by the end of 2005, then the task had to be taken over by Alberta Environment and the federal government. Alberta Environment came up with an interim proposal in January of 2006, and subsequently the DFO got involved.
Again, there seems to be a lot of industry “influence”, shall we say, and wanting to have as little change of the status quo as possible so that there would still be allowance for water to be diverted, even under a red alert system in the proposed draft management framework. This is why not only the Pembina Institute but also some of the aboriginal communities don't find this proposed framework acceptable.
So that's why it's reached a stalemate. It's just not acceptable. In fact, the Mikisew Cree have actually withdrawn from CEMA because they're so disappointed that it's not protecting the aboriginal interests with respect to traditional fishing and also commercial fishing.