Our provincial-territorial witness at the committee had suggested that it was their understanding, at both the provincial and the municipal level, that the act from its inception was to deal exclusively with navigation.
In that vein—and I don't expect you to have the numbers here, but I'd appreciate it if they could be compiled for the committee—how many environmental assessments were triggered in the first 100 years by the Navigable Waters Protection Act? How many permits for navigable waters were issued in the same amount of time?
I'll leave that for you to report back on to the committee.
The deputy minister explained that there is an opt-in system. For those who are interested in it, can you explain how the opt-in system will work?