Mr. Chair, I'd like to add something to what our minister said.
First, as the minister mentioned, at the annual Canada’s Annual Energy and Mines Ministers’ Conference held in Kananaskis in July, the ministers agreed on a Canada-wide approach for promoting the interests of the energy and mining sectors.
One of the ministers' priorities was to make the environmental assessments of projects more efficient.
Let me just expand briefly on that.
What the minister said was that they do not want to reduce the environmental standards. They do not want, in any way, to reduce the outcome. What they're looking for is to make sure that it's efficient. In some cases, they were talking about where we have duplicative processes.
So that's really what it's about: it's about making the process more efficient, not less effective.
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