Thanks, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to the witnesses. I appreciate your submission and your proposed amendments for our consideration.
I want to move from the consultation process this morning to talk a little bit about environmental stewardship. I know that with respect to NUPPAA, this is one of the main thrusts—I think, Ryan, we can frame it that way—in an effort to establish a more streamlined system for environmental assessments and provide additional measures for environmental protection.
As I understand it, in order to accomplish this, NUPPAA proposes to confirm and clarify the role of NIRB in clauses 18 to 27, to establish a process to determine, inter alia, the possible ecosystemic impact of a proposed project, which is in clause 88, to provide monitoring programs for ecosystem impacts, which is in clause 135, and to establish enforcement mechanisms as they're laid out in clauses 209 to 219.
I want to unpack that a little bit. I would start by asking which stages of a development project trigger an environmental or ecosystemic assessment.
Would you be able to answer that, Ryan?