Well, when we went out to do our consultations, engagement and information sessions with stakeholders over the past year, we heard from industry that because these payments are oftentimes included in impact benefit agreements with aboriginal organizations, they felt it would be useful to defer that particular item so it could be discussed more appropriately with aboriginal communities. When we talked to the aboriginal communities, they felt it would be helpful to do more outreach, to actually go to the communities, explain the situation, to make it clear that the obligation is not on the aboriginal governments to report but rather on the reporting entity or the industry to report those payments. At the Energy and Mines Ministers' Conference in August, provincial and territorial energy and mines ministers also supported the idea of deferring the payments for two years to allow further discussion with aboriginal organizations.
What we are planning to do over the winter months is to go out to the aboriginal communities across the country to talk about the legislation and inform them of how this will work, so that we are prepared after the two-year deferral or two years after the act comes into force. The payments will then be reported by those entities and we'll all be on the same page.
We indeed have listened to what we heard from aboriginal organizations, from industry, and from our provincial and territorial counterparts. I think that even civil society would support this—I'm sure you'll be hearing from them—to ensure we can move the legislation forward in a timely way and bring in those payments once we've done our due diligence on engagement and information to the aboriginal communities.