I'd like to kick things off by saying that I think I sensed a little hesitancy at the outset of some of your testimony about the potential of there being serious changes made to the legislation that might run counter to what your wishes are.
If I could reflect the comments of my colleague, Mr. Hardie, we've learned in some of the testimony that there are actually some good changes that have been made. To the extent that there are positive developments, we don't want to further drive up the expenses to municipalities for the sake of making projects more expensive. I'd like to put your minds at ease there. At the same time, we do want to make sure that the legislation operates as it was intended to.
By way of background, I think we may have wildly different experiences. I'm from out in Nova Scotia where I'm surrounded by coast five minutes from my house at any given point in time. A lot of local businesses in fact use lakes or rivers to get their products to market as well. So it's sometimes a business-friendly approach that we take to making sure that there's a free right of navigation in their relationship with municipal works.
I'd like to give you an opportunity to explain if there are projects that you have been able to take on as a result of the changes to the legislation we're dealing with that weren't possible before .
Maybe respond in the order that you testified.