I hope you are correct, Gaunty.
However, after watching successive ‘deadlines’ (if one can dignify them with that name) for the completion of the ‘new’ rules come and go, year after year, you’ll forgive me if I don’t share your optimism.
Why do you think Mr Byron’s language during the hearing shifted from clear and concise to the unintelligible political goobledegook quoted above? He doesn’t share your optimism, either.
It’s taken nearly 10 years to build the regulatory equivalent of the Spruce Goose in that hangar on the corner of Northbourne and Barry. No one’s going to redesign and rebuild it in one year. If they do, it’s going to be one ugly, inefficient bird.