Madam Chair, for the short-form understanding of everyone in the room, this amendment of mine attempts to insert:
(2.1) For the purposes of subsection (1), a project involving any of the following decisions requires an assessment: (a) a decision of the Minister of Fisheries under the Fisheries Act to permit any temporary or permanent alteration to, or destruction of, fish habitat; (b) a decision of the Minister of Transport under the Canadian Navigable Waters Act to issue a permit pertaining to navigable waters whether or not these are listed in the schedule; and
I want to flag this one for you, because this will save a lot of trouble in understanding the Navigable Waters Act later. We may not have time to amend the Navigable Waters Act later or pay attention to it, given the time constraints the committee is under, but this will deal with the issue of “on or off” the schedule and the impact of that for environmental assessment. This is a very helpful amendment.
Then it continues:
(c) a decision of the Minister of Environment under the Species at Risk Act to permit activities that pose a threat to a listed species.
Those three—