I should say that even absent an agreement, we have the flexibility in our act to rely on what provinces are doing in their assessments and to take those as equivalent, by default, within ours.
It would be better under a co-operation agreement, where the rules are clearer and the full suite of tools in the Impact Assessment Act can be used to defer to provinces, but even absent an agreement with another province, we will be able—and we have already started—to rely on what provinces are doing and take those as equivalent in our assessments.
