Madam Chair, LIB-71, LIB-72, and LIB-73 address transition provisions. They provide for consistent transition measures across the three acts. Clearly there is a need for certainty around which environmental assessments currently under way would continue under the current legislation and which would follow the new process and requirements. We've heard from a number of the stakeholders that the subject of the bill could be improved and I am proposing these three amendments.
This one in particular, LIB-71, would increase certainty by establishing an objective criterion: the notice of commencement for determining which projects will continue under CEAA 2012. LIB-71, with its long detailed information, is pretty self-explanatory in terms of achieving these objectives.