Mr. Chair, if I might add to that--I believe Mr. Osbaldeston certainly made the point with me, but I believe he made it with the committee as well--right now they must go through that full approval process. So if you're redecking a bridge or putting guardrails in on a bridge, which is not interfering with navigable waters and is a very small type of project, it must be considered and go through that approval process. It's not at all to suggest that major causeways and bridges wouldn't be subject to the act and subject to the full approval process, but it's to take the smaller stuff out of that, which currently creates a queue and holds things up.
On March 11th, 2008. See this statement in context.