The Agency has experience with reasonable and unreasonable situations. We operate within the Transportation Act as well as in piloting and some provisions of Canada's Marine Act. We have the expertise and we are used to dealing with noise or with reasonable and unreasonable situations. The term “nuisance” is also confusing. What represents a nuisance? It is no more specific than what is reasonable or unreasonable. There is always a limit. We can play with semantics, but at some point, if you are suggesting that we use the term “unreasonable noise”, then I imagine that is what is used by Transport Canada, by the Minister, and then, in consultations with the Agency, among other things, after which it was decided that it is the most appropriate term, given the circumstances, that will allow us to do our job, to enforce the legislation and to interpret it properly.
On November 2nd, 2006. See this statement in context.