The federal regulations from the forestry perspective are really driven around the big environmental issues--water, air, and so on. In order to understand where we're going to go vis-à-vis our outputs on air emissions and Kyoto, and what all this is going to mean to us, we need clear direction. We can't fuss forever here, if we're going to make decisions.
At the big federal level, it's a lot of bureaucracy--water permits today and air...and my God, it's an enormous number of people, with what we're trying to accomplish. We'd like to be, both on a provincial basis and a federal basis, very much outcome-based. Tell us where we have to be. Leave us alone. Let us go and do it. If we don't do it, then hit us with a fine, whatever it's going to be. But don't try to manage it day to day.
Particularly on the provincial level, I know this is not about provincial regulations here, but we have an enormous amount of red tape, and I think it's the same across the country. We need to get away from that. It's just strangling the country from a productivity point of view.
Outcome-based....Tell us where you want to be. Don't change the regulations every five minutes, because we can't keep up. It takes a lot of bureaucracy, a lot of cost to keep up. Get it clear and then live with it for a period of time so we can settle down, and hold us responsible for the outcome, not the day-to-day management of it.