We heard that loud and clear, not just from the expert panel, but across the board. It was proponents, indigenous peoples, environmentalists, and provinces and territories, saying that we need to use the tool strategic and regional assessments. Why? It's because one project can't bear all of the cumulative impacts. We were trying to bring much broader issues into one project assessment. It doesn't work that way, nor does it provide certainty. We certainly agree.
It's key to understand that we must do regional or strategic assessments with provinces. There is provincial jurisdiction. We certainly recognize that, as a federal government, we need to be working with provinces and territories. We have announced that we will be conducting the first strategic assessment on climate change. We've been very clear that we need to meet our international obligations. We are going to be starting with that. It's going to be launched in the coming weeks with a consultation paper, and this will be requiring close collaboration with provinces and territories, obviously, but also with indigenous peoples and other stakeholders.