Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  When projects are developed and taken through to a decision point, you have a budget, a timeline, and a certain set of risk analysis that's been done around assessment and regulatory risk. When these things start to drag out, they have an impact on those things. As a project move

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. Let me answer the last part of your question first, and then come back at it. I think a lot of things can be worked out. As your preamble statement indicated, I think, there's a willingness here from people to make sure that this process works for everybody going forw

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well, I'll give you a very brief comment. In addition to going through an assessment process—I'll use the Mayo B hydro project as an example—we would go through a public utility board hearing. We went through a water board hearing. I don't know how many permits we would have had

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thanks, Mr. Leef. Yes, I think that's certainly a logical possibility of how it could be clarified. To me, the clarification needs to provide two benefits, if you will. It gives the benefit to the proponent that they know what the clear definition is of cumulative effects and wh

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Richards. I'm happy to be here today. Thank you for the invite. Over the years, I have spent a great deal of time involved in the YESAA process. Today I want to talk primarily about the ex-com—or executive committee—process, so I think you have a bit of both sides