I believe the minister, in his letter to the committee, outlined the importance of collaboration and coordination between those reviews for very much that purpose. There are cross effects and cross issues among all four of the reviews: the pipelines with the NEB, the fisheries reviews with our navigable waters, and then the issue of environmental assessments and which projects should apply. Officials within the public service are working to coordinate information across the reviews and to be able to identify cross issues as they emerge. It might be useful if we could, to the extent possible, make that information available to this committee for its deliberations.
On October 4th, 2016. See this statement in context.