I think I'm going to finish up with you, Mr. Andreassen. You talked about participation fatigue in terms of communities engaging with project proposals, I assume, where people were given no compensation for taking part, they felt that they weren't listened to and the decision didn't reflect in any way the local view.
Our study is about best practices for indigenous engagement here in Canada, but we're looking to other countries, like the United States. What are the laws in the United States?
Here, if a community felt that it wasn't listened to, that the decision didn't reflect the local view and that all the consultation was just listening and writing things down.... We had a Federal Court of Appeal case on the TransMountain pipeline, which was quashed in part because the court found that the government people consulting were just “note-takers”. They weren't really listening to the people. They wrote things down, but they made no attempt to reflect those views in the decision.
What might be the differences in the United States and how would the courts there see that consultation?