Regulatory authorities often complicate things with their own delays and separate agreements, as it were. Okay.
Currently it's a two-step process after a comprehensive study at the federal level: the federal minister makes an EA decision, then the responsible authority or authorities make their decisions. Further consolidation could occur by providing CEAA with more authority to deal with what are now larger screenings and providing the federal minister with more authority regarding major projects. In effect it would remove the two-step decision-making process after a comprehensive study.
Would this further consolidation make environmental assessments more predictable and straightforward, in your opinion?