Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to come back to the issue of the very long delays for obtaining environmental permits. Do the environmental analyses really take that much time? Is this what is causing delays in getting the projects done? We have heard a number of times that it sometimes takes up to four years for some projects to get their permit, which seems huge.
Is it the environmental analysis or the administrative process that's causing these delays in the procedures? Are these delays justified from a scientific point of view? For example, do we need three years to determine whether this species really goes in that space or is it simply administrative?