Thank you, Chair.
In Conservatives' efforts to help improve this bill with certainty, transparency and clarity for all Canadians, proponents and provinces and territories, this is another measure to attempt to give certainty on criteria and timelines.
We think it's pretty obvious that in order to give certainty for proponents, we must remove the power and the ability to eliminate projects from the national list after they've already been deemed as being in the national interest. That would clearly create uncertainty for investors all the way through the process.
That is the purpose of this amendment. It is to remove the minister's power to unilaterally delete projects from the national interest list.
(Amendment negatived [See Minutes of Proceedings])