Thank you, Chair.
I thank all of you very much for being here today.
Rick Lindgren, it's great to see you, sir.
Rick and I have worked together for 20 years where he represented a community organization that I was a part of. We've gone through one full environmental assessment—we are in the process of another environmental assessment—a judicial review, and an environmental review tribunal together. We have a lot of experience.
Going through that process creates a lot of concerns for me around meaningful public participation and the importance to both proponents and the public of an appeal mechanism that upholds accountability and oversight.
If you could, please, I'd like you to highlight for us some of the areas in the bill that could be improved to ensure that we have meaningful public participation, and the importance of having an appeal mechanism like an environmental review tribunal.