This issue has come up quite a bit from all of the witnesses. I've really appreciated all of your testimony. This bill provides for the promulgation of a lot of regulations. Without those regulations, we still have a lot of legal uncertainty on exactly what the regime will be.
I put the question to the government and to the National Energy Board of whether or not they have already been conferring, and with the energy sector, which it seems would be logical, on the beginning of drafting the regulations. When I was assistant deputy minister, it was my understanding that when you are coming forth with a whole new legislative regime, you are also thinking about what regulations to implement that put substance to the bill, and then what kind of staffing and training you are going to need in order to implement that new regime in a constructive and effective way.
I guess I would like to hear from any of you. I appreciate the comments by Mr. Donihee, which were very honest. It is nice to hear that you once worked at the NEB, so you know what is needed.
I would just like to know if you agree, or if in any way you concur with my concern. I can only go on the basis of what the government and NEB have told us, and that is that no work has been done yet on these regulations. Does it not make sense that they ought to be expedited in a consultative process to promulgate these necessary regulations so we finally know what the new regulatory regime will be?