Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Very quickly, let me reiterate that the discretion as to whether a project would require an assessment rests largely with the decision body and not with YESAB itself.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think this morning there was a comment that alluded to a change in policy or practice of YESAB with respect to how we bound projects temporally. Certainly in the past it had been YESAB's practice to impose temporal boundaries on a project consistent with the longest permit cyc

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There are some subtle changes that will be brought about by such an amendment, in particular, the ability or authority to discontinue assessments when a proponent is unable to or does not provide a response to an information request within a prescribed period of time. We see this

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. In terms of suspending an assessment pending a response to an information request, there is little change from current practice. We currently generate statistics. For the committee's benefit, a summary of those statistics is available on YESAB's website. The statistics are d