Yes. Typically in southern Canada it will vary. In a lot of the provinces, like Quebec and Ontario, a two-year-long environmental assessment process does work. There have been some extensive ones in B.C., and we all know where they've gone into court cases, which don't fit that average. But in Nunavut you can guarantee that you cannot get anywhere through that process in under four years. It is definitely longer in the north.
I was at a meeting in Rankin Inlet just two weeks ago, where the Kivalliq Inuit Association spoke to the Nunavut Impact Review Board, and even they said that this process needs to be streamlined, that there are too many repetitious steps in the middle, and that we can make it more efficient.