Thank you.
I'd like to expand on my colleague's excellent points about waste and duplication and talk about the effect of onerous and excessive environmental processes that quite frankly have little to do with the environment but a lot to with stopping projects. We're talking about people's livelihoods and communities that are affected by onerous environmental processes that actually, as I said, have nothing to do with the environment.
I would reference the Mackenzie Valley pipeline project. That particular process took 36 years. I happened to be a young biologist back in the seventies, working on the environmental aspects of the Mackenzie Valley pipeline, and I know that area quite well. Because of that 36-year process, with natural gas at an historic low price, chances are that pipeline will never be built in the foreseeable future, and we'll have communities in the Mackenzie Valley left economically destitute for the foreseeable future.
That's the problem with environmental processes that go on far too long and that have nothing to do with the environment. And that's why this is a very dangerous and poorly thought-out bill.