I would like to make a quick comment on the regulatory process versus planning process.
I accept that the joint review panel still has every opportunity to be a planning process. I guess my comment on it would be on the rest of the environmental assessment process being a more regulatory process. It's simply a combination of pushing the proponent to have the detailed design ready at the start to try to encourage a discretionary decision not to apply the act in the first place. That encourages a lot of detail to be completed before the process starts.
The second piece to this is that when you restrict the factors to be looked at to fisheries, migratory birds, and impacts on aboriginal peoples, with a few other minor issues thrown in once in a while, that no longer provides the opportunity for a broad environmental assessment. That is essentially duplicating the issues for which there are already regulatory processes in place.