Environment committee  I'll stay away from the policy-related aspect of your question, but what I can say is that—

Environment committee  If the question is, “is the project list contemplated for changes at this time?”, the answer is no. If I could speak about the project list just briefly, the project list has types of projects that are generally understood to have the greatest likelihood for significant adverse

Environment committee  In our response, we haven't committed to a specific timeline yet. The commissioner offered a number of recommendations, most of which relate to clarifying information, providing clear information, and making it public. It's worth noting, as well, that this audit happened in a

Environment committee  What I agree with, with respect to the recommendation, is that clear and available information about our processes is key to helping Canadians understand the act and how it applies. That gets to the heart of transparency, not only being aware of what the decisions are but how the

Environment committee  Mr. Chair, the commissioner has recommended that we develop criteria to recommend changes to the regulations. The act does provide some direction on that. The commissioner indicated that how we go about that is not necessarily clear for proponents and the public. We have accepted

Environment committee  Mr. Chair, the agency has a flexible and comprehensive framework for engaging aboriginal groups in the conduct of an environmental assessment. From the time that we receive a project description from a proponent right through to a minister's decision statement and well beyond tha

Environment committee  Whether there's a panel review or an agency-led review, the agency collects all the information, and all of that information is available in the public file on that project. So in that regard, I believe it's very transparent. All of that information is available to Canadians upon

Environment committee  Mr. Chair, thank you for the opportunity to be here today in support of the committee's consideration of the Commissioner of Environment and Sustainable Development's fall 2014 report on the implementation of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012. First, let me thank t