I've made one comment, of course, in my brief and remarks this morning about requiring the Federal Court of Appeal to provide reasons to support its decisions. However, you are asking me much more, I think, about the creation of an environmental court or an environmental appeal board as a part of a supervisory scheme. My own view is that I rarely see the value of EABs, those sorts of bodies, in the context of reviewing decisions made by departments rather than by quasi-judicial bodies. I've written in the past about the way in which EABs can shed light on internal decision-making within departments.
I don't see that as being necessary in the context of either panels or the CER. What I want is reasoned decisions and no undue deference to decisions made by the Governor in Council or the minister.