Environment committee  I'll focus on whether CEAA, 2012 delivers robust environmental assessment, or whether it is so focused that in essence it becomes shallow. When I look at the kind of information that will be required to complete an environmental assessment for the agency, for example, because t

Environment committee  In all fairness to Professor Doelle, and with all respect, I wasn't able to follow his argument. I was listening hard and trying to do so. To me, when I look at it and put it into context to ask what the change is here, it is not a material change. The sense that it could force

Environment committee  No. I would agree with Professor Doelle that if there is a practical effect, I'm not the person to comment on it. I assume there is a reason for a date, but I don't know what it is.

Environment committee  Cumulative effects are absolutely an important part of doing good project assessment. Could it be most effectively done in a broader land use planning? I think the answer is yes. Do I think that regional and strategic planning are good ideas? Absolutely. In a project-specific c

Environment committee  Thank you. To begin with, I would say that I tend to agree with the testimony of Helen Cutts, when she said that these changes were by and large intended to bring parity to the English and the French versions. When I look at it, certainly, the difference between “would” and “

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  I agree they are housekeeping and technical for the most part. I would point to the exception being clause 432, which brings an amendment to the transition provisions. The net effect of that is to close a loophole that might have existed. It's very complicated. If I try to expl

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  Exactly.

Environment committee  That is correct.

Environment committee  That's correct. I did a variety of work with the Environmental Law Centre, but that was my primary focus.

Environment committee  That's correct.

Environment committee  In a background sense, yes. I was counsel at the Environmental Law Centre at the time and did some background work.

Environment committee  That's correct.

Environment committee  Thank you. I've had the opportunity through my 26 years of practising law to participate in both the emergence of modern project environmental assessment right back to the EARP guidelines order through the early days of the first CEAA, then through the development of regulations