Quite often, these areas they go into.... I'll just use the forestry industry to set an example, because I think it points to our other problem, the other problem being that our current legislation requires that every work--work being every one of those bridges--requires a dedicated approval document.
Suppose MacMillan Bloedel wants to go into a piece of New Brunswick. They're going to cut here this year, and it's away out in the boonies someplace. It's three hours from anybody. In the past they used to come in and say they were going to clear-cut up here, and were there any navigational concerns? They'd show us their boundaries. We'd take a quick look at it and we'd say no--just go. They'd go in and they'd do their thing with their temporary bridges. They'd pull whatever they had out and they'd move on for the next year. That's one company.
Then came the introduction of ISO standards. ISO certifications require all these companies, in order to maintain their certification, to prove they've got all their required approvals, permits, and certifications in place and to produce them. All of a sudden we start having these guys show up with 3,000 applications in hand, saying now they need us to produce 3,000 pieces of paper for them on waterways that for the most part would be covered under these minor waterways that nobody's ever going to put a canoe or a kayak on.
In one case we went with the Forest Products Association of Canada by helicopter two hours north of Prince Albert and landed on the bridge. I looked under the bridge and I said, “The water's absolutely navigable, but other than your lumber trucks, who's up here?” There is nobody around for 300 to 400 miles.