Thank you, Madam Chair.
As mentioned earlier, this goes back to the recommendations of the expert panel on culture on its own being a fifth pillar of sustainability, in terms of cultural impacts and cultural conditions. It also came through in testimony by indigenous people that cultural conditions should be part of the formula of impacts that we're looking at, so between “any change...to the health, social,” and “or economic conditions”, we would insert the word “cultural”.
Certainly there's no harm done. If the Liberals are sure that “social” covers “cultural”, I'm sure they'll agree with me that in law, clarifying it by including “cultural” cannot possibly be seen as interfering with the smooth functioning of environmental assessment, impact assessment. If we want to see cultural conditions and cultural impacts considered, they should be listed.