It's critically important because the Atlantic Accord is a joint undertaking on the part of the federal government and both of the provinces to do work relating to the offshore together. It is a very interesting piece of architecture for federal-provincial co-operation.
The provinces asked us to work on this because they want to see the development of a large-scale industry on a go-forward basis. Both governments have been enormously engaged and enormously co-operative. Every word in this bill has been agreed upon by the province of Newfoundland and Labrador and the province of Nova Scotia.