Thanks for the question.
I would strongly reinforce your premise that we need to find a way to make all of this work. We need economic growth, we need to protect the environment, and we need to find ways for the major stakeholders--aboriginal people--to be involved in the process. I would say first that our industry understands the need for extensive aboriginal consultation. It's a regular part of what we do on all of our projects, and it happens throughout the project life cycle.
I think everybody understands the legislative requirements around aboriginal consultation. I can't comment on the specifics of some of the particular treaties, but there are existing legislation and requirements outside of CEAA that address many of these issues. I would caution the committee against trying to put all of those things into CEAA and expanding its scope to address things that are appropriately addressed elsewhere.
There may be occasions where that is necessary, but I think we have a tremendous tendency whenever we look at a piece of legislation to go like this and keep trying to put more into it, as opposed to saying, “This piece of legislation is intended to address significant environmental impacts.” That's what it's for. Let's make sure it does that. Let's make sure it does it well. But let's rely on other pieces of legislation to do what they do appropriately, and not try to feed it all into CEAA.