Finance committee  I would just say one thing. This will certainly reduce the scope of a number of environmental assessments and thereby reduce environmental assessment in Canada by virtue of section 15.1. Again, as was just suggested, it will render moot the lawsuit of arguing that those exclus

Finance committee  Sure. Thank you. Yes, I think it is true that a lot of us have made that specific recommendation. But I think that is, with all due respect, irrelevant to the larger question here about the way this is being done. Moreover, one possibly good thing is in with a whole lot of provi

Finance committee  Yes, I am.

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  Not at all. This is Arlene Kwasniak from Calgary. I've been a member of the RAC for years, the regulatory advisory committee, and have also been very active in environmental and academic communities. There was no consultation whatsoever, either with respect to this or with respec

Finance committee  Okay. I just wanted to finally say that an omnibus budget bill is really no place for such amendments. There's been no public stakeholder and aboriginal consultation. There could be environmental degradation and impacts on human health through the lack of environmental assessme

Finance committee  Yes, I can.

Finance committee  Okay. Thank you. I wasn't expecting to go first, but here we go. Thank you for this opportunity to connect remotely. I represent the Alberta Wilderness Association, which is the oldest conservation organization in Alberta, dating back to 1965. We promote wilderness, wild lands,