Yes, I believe it should be legislated. I think we should have strategic environmental assessment.
It is already partially legislated, but it's very limited the way it is legislated right now. I think it should certainly be opened up.
There should be more provincial-federal type partnerships, more ability for the federal government to be involved with other entities, such as municipalities and the like, to do strategic environmental assessment. I think in the end that doing good strategic environmental assessment will lead to the need for fewer environmental assessments and may deal with some of the multiple screenings we have.
There are lots of tools in the CEAA already to deal with all the assessments we have. They are just not being used very well--replacement assessments and class screenings--but strategic EA is definitely one of the better ways to go. We've played with it a bit. I think now it's time to get out there and do it.