As I mentioned in my opening remarks, there are known ways to enhance the efficiency of environmental decision-making. They include things like bringing all parties to the table really early on in project planning cycles; making sure that federal, provincial and indigenous governments are co-operating meaningfully and not substituting each other's assessments; and doing that big-picture work ahead of time.
I don't see any of that in Bill C-39. What I see is cutting corners. We know from experience that when governments try to cut corners, it backfires. It leads to environmental disasters like the Mount Polley mine tailings disaster of 2014 in British Columbia, and it leads to the Sydney tar ponds. These environmental disasters end up being borne and paid for by taxpayers. They undermine certainty, and they're not good for Canadians' public health and safety.