But that is my question, Mr. Minister. How are you defining “directly related”?
This is a concern in British Columbia, as you know, where there's increasing feeling that Ottawa is just ramming down our throats a project that, if it is not properly environmentally assessed, could threaten thousands of jobs on the B.C. coast, in the fisheries and the environmental tourism industry, a project that provides for a few dozen permanent on-site jobs.
So my question to you, because clause 83 gives you that power, is how you have been defining “directly related” internally. What are the criteria you are using in what many British Columbians feel is an attempt to exclude them from hearings that have an impact right up and down the B.C. coast?