Thank you.
Thank you to my colleagues.
I want to touch on some things briefly. I'm fascinated. When I was going to university I spent some time at Great Bear Lake as a fishing guide, so I spent some time in the Territories. I was in Coppermine, but at that point it was still the Northwest Territories; it wasn't Nunavut then. I haven't been to the Yukon yet, but I'm hoping to fix that this summer.
I truly hope that as a committee we can have a serious discussion about visiting some of these communities, because I find northern Canada to be absolutely stunning and beautiful. The best part about it, of course, is the people who live there.
Mr. Jenkins, I think you have a unique opportunity to tell us about the difference. Right now we're going through our budget bill, Bill C-38, which is going to harmonize and find the most common sense path so that we don't have duplication and get bogged down. We're putting in some definitive timelines when it comes to the government's responsibilities in permitting and the environmental assessment process.
You talked about YESAA. I want you to have an opportunity to reiterate, even though some shortcomings have been identified. How much of a benefit was it to go to that one review, that simplified, streamlined process? Have you seen any indication that there has been any degradation of the environment, or that any environmental considerations have been put at risk because of that harmonized regulatory and legislative approach?