It's because of the way our federation works that the list won't work. Even if you had a list, you would still need a trigger; I mean, we have lists under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act. Once something is triggered, you can then look at the exclusion list to see if it's excluded. If something is not physical, you can look at the inclusion list to see if it might be on it anyway. But in every case you need a trigger before you have a list.
You could always beef up the list approach by adding to the exclusion list, and you could deal with what Mr. Barnes called the “federal coordination dance” by doing something other than trying to deal with that as a list. For example, as was suggested, you could look at self-assessment again, and maybe just have one agency do all assessments—one that's better funded than the CEAA currently is—or you could have a new federal coordination regulation.
I don't see the connection between the list and efficiency. I guess the list is going to reduce the number of assessments, but I don't think that is a good thing when the federal government is the only one who can regulate within certain areas in this country.