Environment committee  That would be giving free legal advice, I think, but that is one of the problems. You've identified one of the problems with the legislation. It is unclear whether there is any availability to rely on vested rights to protect your interests. So in the case you gave, because signi

Environment committee  Maybe I can help you a little bit. Certainly a number of other countries have environmental bills of rights. What I can't help you with, though, are the various safeguards and parameters built into that legislation or the regulatory processes those countries go through. Because i

Environment committee  Thank you, sir. An excellent question. When we looked at this, for our review of CAPP, certainly one of the concerns we had was that it had a charter-like appearance and the preamble certainly indicated that it could rise to that status. That gave us pause to ask, is this an att

Environment committee  I can be very brief here. First of all, the Oldman River Dam case was under the EARP process, which predated the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency. Essentially that gave rise to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act. That's an act under which major projects undergo env

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Ms. Duncan, I would disagree with the narrow interpretation you've put on that case. One of the propositions of the case is that it indeed shares jurisdiction, and because the environment is, in its essence, intertwined, both the province and the federal

Environment committee  That's correct.