I think it's a good amendment but it needs something added.
To make it consistent with the rewriting of that provision by the Liberals, it should read, under proposed subsection 16(2.1), “For the purposes of subsection (1), a project involving any of the following decisions requires an assessment prior to” . Under the existing act, if any of those authorities have already made the decision, it precludes an assessment. The important thing in here is to say, in these circumstances, before they make these decisions, there must be an assessment.