Natural Resources committee  Thanks for the questions and the comments. Those are exactly the kinds of things that we hear about on a regular basis. The National Energy Board is the regulator that would establish, by looking at the evidence base, the circumstances, and the elements of a pipeline, where the

Natural Resources committee  Certainly, the bill provides a number of areas where its focus is on prevention. For example, the bill provides clarified audit and inspection powers of the NEB, which is part of the monitoring and inspection areas in order to prevent incidents from occurring and trying to dete

Natural Resources committee  The bill provides us the ability to move forward with how we would do that. Today we can't so I would suggest that without the ability to move forward on how to move toward prevention and better prevention, it would allow for that. Certainly the other aspect around bringing great

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the question. I think it's a good one. Looking at the analytics, volumetrics is a fairly straightforward way of identifying where you would see the majority of the movement of energy goods. I think the risks associated with a particular product moving through a pip

Natural Resources committee  If you relate volume to the activity level the activity level is represented.

Natural Resources committee  No, it's not any different from most pieces of legislation that establish authorities to provide regulations. Generally speaking, without being entirely disingenuous to Parliament, legislation doesn't get changed very often, and it takes a great deal of activity and attention fro

Natural Resources committee  Correct.

Natural Resources committee  It's fairly complex. It's more complicated than it seems. The act provides the entry into a broader conversation that will take some time to work through with different jurisdictions. There are nine different jurisdictions that regulate pipelines in Canada. There is quite a bit o

Natural Resources committee  Just to be clear, harmonization will be around damage prevention regulations, not around liability. What's proposed in the bill will only apply to federally regulated pipelines. Provincial pipelines have their own legal regime around their liability. There are no provincial jur

Natural Resources committee  Roughly speaking, the federal pipelines tend to be larger, but my colleagues in Alberta and Saskatchewan might take issue with that. There are some pretty big provincial pipelines in Alberta and Saskatchewan. It's really a function, typically, of how far and how large a network

Natural Resources committee  Correct. Go ahead, Joseph.

Natural Resources committee  The act provides the ceiling of a billion dollars for a major oil pipeline of at least 250,000 barrels per day, if it's individually or an aggregate, and then provides a regulation-making authority. We do not have the regulation-making authority today to establish the classes un

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for question. Mr. Chair, I think this simply clarifies the existing law. In ordinary civil law an agent can be liable to the principle for any of their misdeeds. This is simply a way of clarifying that existing law.

Natural Resources committee  Correct. It extends a step further even if you weren't a contractor to the pipeline company. If you were a construction worker working near a pipeline and damaged the pipeline and caused damages, the pipeline company is responsible even though you weren't working for the pipeli

Natural Resources committee  I'll start and then I'll have my colleague join in, because he actually worked on the RRD initially. The responsible resource development plan is a series of efforts under way to ensure that there are adequate and appropriate world-class safety regimes around the regulatory syst