Essentially, when I mentioned that, I was referring to a broad consensus among stakeholders, many of whom had been asked about and had supported consolidating those responsibilities to do environmental assessment in a central organization. The reason for that is that you end up with environmental assessments being conducted by one organization whose central and unique mandate is to ensure that high-quality environmental assessments are conducted, as opposed to those responsibilities being dispersed between 30 or 40 different departments whose mandate is not only to do high-quality environmental assessment.
On May 5th, 2010. See this statement in context.