Thank you for that question. It is an important question.
As our office moves into phase two under our act, we are putting together processes—which we could get into in more detail—in which we will bring together the proponent, all the first nations rights holders and any departments that have requirements to provide advice on permits, such as DFO and ECCC, as well as government departments inside British Columbia. We'll be holding a public hearing through the CER, at which we intend to bring all of that together up front. Then, through the hearing process, we'll receive advice and considerations on how we need to deal with all the issues with rights holders and the environment in the consideration of the final conditions document that would be issued in early September.
Once that conditions document is issued, it doesn't necessarily mean the project will start construction. It means that now the proponents can take that conditions document and move the project through to FID, which is financial close. They can make sure they've priced all of those conditions in, finalized their budgets and raised their financing. There would be a couple of months before they would start construction.
Currently, from the initial consultations that we did through the listing process, we now know many of the concerns of many of the first nations. We continue to work with the first nations today through our consultation process, which Rob leads. We continue to work with everybody involved with that pipeline so that we can be assured that we have all the issues and our permit will reflect that.