Thank you very much for coming, and so many of you as well.
I'll start by asking Ms. Raffoul and Ms. Brady a question about the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada.
In your departmental plan for 2024-25, it says:
Work will be done, in collaboration with other federal departments, to capitalize on efficiencies so major projects, in particular projects that support clean growth, advance more quickly.
However, we learned that Impact Assessment Agency staff had been assigned to a working group alongside representatives from the oil and gas industry. It provides advice to a central government committee called the “main table”. At this main table, there are representatives from the Department of Natural Resources and others from the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development. They were supposed to meet with various industry figures who are members of the well-known Pathways Alliance. Issues like indigenous engagement, regulatory coordination, economic inclusion, emissions accounting and project development and funding are to be discussed.
So we have this table, all the lobbying done by the Pathways Alliance and all the opacity surrounding certain information. All these elements correspond, in a somewhat worrisome way, to the demands of the so-called Pathways Alliance. That's what it was asking for in the spring. So we seem to have given it every single thing it was asking for.
Are you going to allow the regulatory relief the oil and gas industry is requesting, particularly by not subjecting some of its projects to the Impact Assessment Act?