As far as bringing certainty and predictability and timeliness is concerned, it's at seven, eight, or nine, but the truth will tell. We haven't had enough real experience with the changes, but certainly the intent to ensure that is so important.
We are not the proponents of these projects. We're the builders. When we get the green light, assuming the environmental assessment has been properly done and scrutiny with all the regulations, etc., being contractors we want to go from A to B as fast as possible and get the project done in the quality and time and budget that the proponent has asked for.
The worst case is that we start with a bunch of uncertainty hanging over us. The chance that the project could be stopped or delayed because of a challenge based on, “Oh, there should have been another assessment” or “This has been triggered now” frankly was our biggest concern.
It appears to me that the changes that were made with respect to this legislation would diminish that probability substantially, from a builder's perspective.
Frankly, under the old regime the definition of navigable water was anything you could float an opinion on. That was the uncertainty we would often start projects with which had already received environmental assessments. They would have started it, and somebody would have said, “Wait a minute; that's navigable”, even though it might be a dry drainage ditch in July and August. That was the problem we the builders had: the lack of certainty, the lack of knowing that we had now received the green light to proceed and could now proceed.