Thank you, Chair.
Thank you all very much for being here once again on this very important bill.
As I've mentioned a number of times, I have been through environmental assessments and terms of reference at the provincial level with the Province of Ontario. It was my experience in going through those that the proponent has an incredible amount of power, in a sense, on defining what evidence or science is going to be used. I want to follow up on where Mr. Fisher was going earlier.
It's very much proponent driven. In the mining experience, they decide how it will be studied, what will be reported, how reports are presented, or whether they're even presented at all. Once again, if they don't like the findings, nobody knew the report was even done.
How does Bill C-69 ensure that this is not going to be a purely proponent-driven process when it comes to the science and evidence?