Madam Chair, under the previous legislation, prior to the amendments, all waterways in Canada were subject to the protections of the act, and this included some 17,000 named waterways and unnamed waterways, and it was virtually impossible for the department to implement the act for such a broad scope.
So, moving to a risk-based framework under the amended Navigation Protection Act defined the criteria with which efforts would be focused on Canada's busiest waterways, and there were criteria established to define what those waterways were. They were threefold. The first was that there was charting available for those waterways, which is an essential support to navigation. The second was Statistics Canada information about the level of commercial activity and freight activity on the waterways. And then there was historical information from the program about recreational use on the waterways.
Those were the criteria, Madam Chair, that were used to establish the new boundaries and the new scope of the act.