Thank you.
If the government doesn't comply with its own legislated requirements, the consequences are that citizens, members of the public, can then hold the government accountable by taking them to court. If you look back at the history of environmental assessment in Canada writ large, you will see that for decades we had an unenforceable cabinet directive that wasn't applied, and that it was a court decision brought by citizens in Saskatchewan that actually led to the drafting of the first Canadian environmental assessment law. Since that time, many citizens' groups across the country have held the government accountable to its own environmental assessment law. That's how the legal system works.