The goal of Bill C-69 is to ensure that we have a process in place that improves the transparency of decision-making, allows good projects to move forward in the quickest way possible and allows for the “one project, one review” philosophy. It also gives flexibility to provinces, such that if they want to substitute their own review process for the federal review process, the bill allows them to do so.
This is legislation that is fixing the changes that were made in 2012, which gutted the environmental protection of water and of fish and took away the ability of Canadians to participate in the regulatory process. We saw thousands and thousands of Canadians marching in the streets in 2012, opposing that 2012 legislation. It has really polarized the political atmosphere in Canada, which is not helping our energy sector in any shape or way.
We are trying to fix all those flaws in the process.