Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to thank the witnesses for being with us.
The goals and principles of this bill are important, and I think we all support the principles of justice and environmental protection.
I would like to know, and the member for Edmonton—Strathcona may have some ideas about this, whether the bill proposed might have an impact on other federal legislation. If so, what will that be?
With SARA, for example, how might this intersect if a citizen is not satisfied with the political decision on whether to list a species being proposed by COSEWIC? Is this the kind of place where a citizen might take action? If so, how might that overlap, or contradict, or make more complex the processes under SARA?
For me to have a practical understanding of this law, another example would be the Taseko Mines application. The panel, in its environmental assessment, made some determination of damage to the environment and to fish species, but it is the cabinet that decides, on the balance of economic, social, and environmental issues, whether to go ahead with that project. Would this law intersect with those processes, and if so, how?
Thank you.