Let me build on that, Mr. Hazell.
It sounds as though CEAA is very reactive in its present mode. It sits back and waits for triggers and that kind of thing, and it seems to focus on doing that for small projects and avoiding some of the big ones.
You, in your 2010 report, said that the environmental assessment process under CEAA has not been used effectively by the Government of Canada in addressing at least one of its own stated environmental priorities: climate change and greenhouse gas emissions.
Also, this committee, in section 3.6 of the 2003 report, said something similar: “...Canada's national and international environmental legal and policy commitments, objectives and standards” should be “incorporated into the environmental assessment process under CEAA”.
So should we somehow build strategic and policy objectives of the government--the stated ones that we supposedly stand for--into CEAA? If we were to do that, how would we do it?