We felt we had to have the draft in there because, if you have that draft, to us that meant that water is flowing more than three months of the year. That's why we came up with that. We even wanted to put a width in there. We really felt there should have been a width in there too. That's something you may want to discuss: if you have draft and width, you can deem it as a navigable waterway.
To give you an example, in Saskatchewan and in many parts of this country, we have streams that run all year round and we call them streams. They're maybe five feet wide and maybe a foot deep and they're fed by springs, or whatever, but they flow a lot. There is a process through the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Department of the Environment to deal with those. We don't need navigable waters there too. That's where we're going here.
There is a place for navigable waters, but it's not there. And if you change the definition of what is a navigable waterway, you'll go a long way to help rural Canada.
