I haven't had time to go into the details of the legislative changes to the Fisheries Act. However, in my review of it so far, I see one of the key improvements to be the addition of section 6, which outlines the factors to be taken into account when an authorization is to be considered, and that includes contribution of the fish to the ongoing productivity of a commercial, recreational, or aboriginal fishery; fisheries management objectives, which are established by Fisheries and Oceans Canada; opportunities for mitigation measures, which I fully anticipate will follow DFO's current hierarchy of approval, to relocate, redesign, and then mitigate; and then the public interest.
This really establishes a clear understanding of how Fisheries and Oceans will go about looking at each project.
With respect to the fish habitat itself, the definition hasn't really changed between the current version and the proposed version. It has been clarified, and I think the definition of serious harm also clarifies a lot of the areas that have been kind of grey zones within the current Fisheries Act.