There lies the frustration of the farmer who wants to put a culvert in to get drainage from one field to another, or the municipality that's having great difficulty and simply wants to repair a bridge.
I do not understand, in our legislation, why we would treat a foot bridge going over a golf course creek the same as the Confederation Bridge going to P.E.I. Why should we have to run them through the same process? It doesn't make sense. In a similar vein, your five-foot culvert between two farmers' fields requires the same process.
How does it get dealt with now? For the most part, for the little stuff, people don't apply. It breeds non-compliance with the legislation. So by rights their work is unlawful. It's illegal, and they're criminals. And I'm not saying that to be facetious.
The trick is, we don't want to be in the little-stuff business. We think that with the little stuff, if you tell people how to do it, they'll do it correctly and up front. If they don't, we want the capability to act. If we find out that there is a problem, through complaint or our own inspection, we need to be able to go in and regulate it to see that it's corrected and made safe. That's how it should be done.