Perhaps I might respond to both dimensions of that.
On the port aspect, while I am not administering the gateways fund, as that lies with Transport Canada, I just wanted to point out as well that there is strong recognition of the delays that series of regulatory approvals can bring, especially even when we're not funding federally, but it just triggers a number of approvals. Port authority is a perfect example, and Yves can speak to this as well.
There is a major projects initiative being led by Natural Resources Canada, in which we are intimately involved, that is now looking at that issue, ensuring that we do remain competitive and that we do have ways of ensuring coordination.
I won't use the word “streamlining” because I think other witnesses have misinterpreted our meaning of that. Coordination is the key.
With respect to us--and Keith can comment as well--one of the things we do when we do our environmental assessment is we can be dealing with fish spawning, so we're dealing with DFO. If there are aboriginal burial sites, we could be dealing with INAC or with Parks Canada federal land, as well as with navigable waters.
We try to bring all of these groups together early on in the process to get a sense of how long this is going to take, because for us, as the committee well knows, this all has a real cost. Promoters of projects and proponents are lined up and ready to go, and once we have the go ahead we have to get into our contribution agreements.
I'm wondering if you two might have any other further comments on that.