Yes, that's definitely what we would recommend. As I've said, the issues of navigation and navigability change dramatically from community to community. So I would never, from Lake Ontario, want to recommend or suggest that I represent a maritime community on an ocean waterfront where the issues--with tides, estuaries, that kind of thing--would be very different.
Also, with due respect, the committee process, for the most part, is difficult for individuals to participate in. There's not a lot of notice about when the committee hearings are going to be. There's not a lot of opportunity to get written submissions in. For individuals who are not necessarily professional environmentalists or professionals working for the navigation transportation industry, this isn't always the best forum for them to bring their concerns to government. Also, I think the academic community, in this particular case, because we are dealing with a legal issue and a philosophical issue in some respects, could make a valid contribution talking about why this right is so important to people and what can be done to protect it.
We are a charity. We are an education group. We're a group that's of assistance to the public. We're not a lobby organization. So I'm not here today to try to tell government what it should be doing or shouldn't be doing or to exert any power or any influence. We wouldn't come and say that you can't make these changes. But we would strongly recommend that there be a national consultation if the committee or the government is interested in pursuing changes to those first three proposals. We think you would learn a lot, that the community has a lot to say, and that there may, in fact, be more concerns on the ground than the government is aware of at this time.