The principal concerns I have are what's not covered by Bill C-5. The challenge I foresee is the expectation that there will be a small set of projects that will be deemed in the “national interest”, but what is going to be required to meet our future requirements in the electricity sector—and probably for other critical infrastructure sectors—will likely be both within that small subset of national interest projects, but also, for a lot of them, outside the national interest projects.
Bill C-5 does not address some fundamental problems that we see as a sector with, for example, clean electricity regulations, the Impact Assessment Act, the Fisheries Act and others.
Our concern is really with respect to what isn't covered and what projects would fall outside those being deemed as within the national interest.