No, I don't believe there was any desire to delay the projects. I believe it was an increase in workload because all 17,000 named waterways in Canada were subject to the act, so the workload.... In fact, streamlining the projects was an important process improvement, but there was still too little focus of the resources under the legislation to allow the department to fully implement that legislation for all waterways.
On October 4th, 2016. See this statement in context.