Again, what we did in this legislation is seek to find the appropriate balance whereby smaller projects, existing rights-of-way.... There is a great deal of good work and expertise in the Canada Energy Regulator. I hope colleagues acknowledge the important work that this organization has done for a long time.
I've had the opportunity to meet people who work in the energy sector in provinces across the country, including in Atlantic Canada. There is a great deal of interest in having an approval process that's more reliable in terms of timelines and that produces decisions based on a series of criteria that are well understood, and that's exactly, from our perspective, what these changes seek to do.
I understand that, on the one hand, as my colleague Steven indicated, Mr. Harper's changes around the Impact Assessment Act—
