Yes. We brought forward the Impact Assessment Act to ensure good projects can actually move ahead expeditiously and to ensure issues are flagged early in the process. Of course, the way in which you implement is just as important as the framework legislation. We are not interested in cutting corners from an environmental perspective. We are not interested in cutting corners in terms of the consultations that we need to have with indigenous communities.
There is a whole range of things that we can do and are doing to try to ensure that we are as efficient as we possibly can be. That goes from things like making sure that proponents are ready to enter, to the process. We often find that mining companies come in and six months into it they figure out that they don't actually have the data, and they have to go back and collect it for two years. It means properly resourcing the agencies so that they're not waiting and projects aren't sitting there for a year or two before you ever start. It means trying to do activities concurrently rather than consecutively.
We have an internal cross-government process going right now to try to ensure that we are finding ways to make the process more efficient, and then we started the regional energy and resource tables, which are about engaging each of the provinces and territories—because in the area of natural resources, every one of them has their own process that is different—to try to find ways to optimize and align the regulatory and permitting process so that we can all go faster.
This is really important, because if you think about critical minerals, for example, if we're going to hit our climate targets in 2035, we have to find ways to be more effective and more efficient without cutting environmental corners and without forgetting about our obligations to discharge our constitutional obligations to indigenous communities.