Thank you, Mr. Chair. The inspectors follow kind of a four-pronged approach to how they bring about compliance. They start off with an education system. They think it’s important that people are aware of what is and isn’t allowed. They also, through their inspection process, quite often deal with a prevention matter so that they can identify something that is going to be or could be a problem in the future, but they let people know
about it. Those are the ones we don’t hear about because most often they correct the problem right there and then you don’t get into a compliance situation, which is the next level around where you ask somebody and give an order to comply. Those ones, hopefully, the majority of the time, result in compliance being seen, but if they are not seen then we move on to enforcement.
We have identified enforcement as something that requires additional diligence on the part of the department. We currently have 12 active cases of where we’re taking something before the courts. We now have, as part of a standing item in our senior management committee, we meet once a month with Justice to review all compliances, and that’s done by the entire senior management because we see a role for a whole bunch of different components of the department whether it’s around land use planning to help with the education side of things or from the inspection side or from the land management side generally. We involve that, but it is something that we do take seriously and are moving more ahead on, on a number of files. But there are quite a number of files that are outstanding there that we are trying to bring into compliance through the other processes first.