The gist of our study now is obviously about resource development and some of the factors that are facing us in the north. At the last committee meeting I asked the department officials who were here from Natural Resources about how long a project proponent might take from a concept right through to getting a shovel in the ground, and they said up to five years. These things change based on the complexity of the application and so on. And I have to tell you, as a member of Parliament, I had lots of phone calls from municipalities and so on when we went through the economic action plan, that things were sitting on somebody's desk somewhere in Ottawa waiting to be approved.
Can you tell me at what point the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act is involved? In that anywhere from a three- to five- or a three- to seven-year average on a five-year project? About how much time does this have to spend on the desks in front of folks administering the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act? Is it a large portion of that five years, a short portion? Does it change? Is it a dynamic thing based on the level or the nature of the application?