Honourable member, any application we receive is first and foremost a request from a company seeking our approval. Those companies have a duty to provide us with any information we deem pertinent to environmental, social and economic issues.
With respect to sustainable development, our job, under the act, is to examine the three sides of sustainable development and make a decision. We envision what approving and denying the project would mean for Canada. Then we determine which of the two scenarios—in other words, one where the permit is granted and one where it is not—as well as the conditions we could impose, would benefit Canadians more.