Thank you.
Welcome, Mr. Middleton. I am glad to meet a representative of the Governement of Alberta.
Every province of Canada try their best to make sure that their regulations are as clear as possible. You brought to our attention that the major problem was delays due to the approval of works being built on waterways. The objective of our present study is to clarify various cases where legislation applies, in order to at least be able to find a quicker way to solve real problems that come under the purview of the Department.
I would like in particular to stress recommendation 6 which goes like this:
Replace the term “bridge” with “work” in Section 8 and replace the date “May 17, 1882” with “January 1, 1995”.
Section 8 is then an exemption to the whole approval rule pertaining to bridges built before this act was adopted. One can easily understand this exemption, but the amendment you propose means more or less that the present act and the obligations it conveys would not apply to anything built before 1995. It seems to me that this exemption is a significant change.
I would like to hear what you have to say about that.