Thanks very much, Mr. Chair.
My amendment simplifies proposed subsection 48.18(2) and removes the codicils. I would instead simply say: “A pipeline claims tribunal is to be established if the release has caused extensive damage, compensation is sought in respect of that damage and it is in the public interest to do so.”
I don't see any clear rationale or purpose in adding all those codicils to that. Why should it not just simply be based on “in the public interest to do so”?