Finance committee  It is a big question. I'll try to be focused. The first step is to say that this is a massive resource. The second step is to say that we are moving beyond the oil sands. This new resource is natural gas. It's light oil. It's NGLs. Natural gas is a transition fuel, and if you w

Finance committee  The inclusion of upstream and downstream emissions in the first instance, in the interim rules, was not put in the same way as the new committee did. They said that they were going to do a very rigorous analysis of that. That's not really within the NEB's purview. Their purview w

Finance committee  I think it's the opposite.

Finance committee  If I could make a comment on that, what happened with the NEB was that an independent panel was set up. It was the independent panel that made that call. They said that this was what they were going to do within the panel. That's another step removed from what you are talking abo

Finance committee  It's pretty obvious that we've lost this investment. It is across Canada. It's not just Calgary. It has a ripple effect across the country, in the pipeline industry and also in the trades. It will affect middle-class folks who are welders, service providers, inspectors, arborists

Finance committee  Thank you for the opportunity. Very directly, we need to get this next phase of regulatory reform right. It is still unclear, both on the NEB modernization piece and the environmental review piece where those things are going to come down. There's a lot of direction that they're

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Kelly. Yes, that was a blow yesterday for Canada on many fronts—jobs, investment, and so on. It is instructive to look at the letter that TransCanada sent to the NEB with their notice of withdrawal from the project. They're pretty clear about what drove their deci

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for the opportunity. I will keep my comments short, because I look forward to the questions. I'm the president and CEO of the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association. We represent the 11 major transmission pipelines who tr

Fisheries committee  I understand the question as being whether the changes to the Fisheries Act in 2012 created more certainty in the process.

Fisheries committee  The first point is that the things that go on to protect fish habitat and the assessment and the practices used to protect fish habitat for pipelines didn't change. What the changes to the Fisheries Act in 2012 did do, though, was provide streamlining so that you didn't get.... W

Fisheries committee  Were we consulted...?

Fisheries committee  Yes, we were.

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the question. No, we would not and we don't see any difference in how the NEB applies the CEAA rules, because they're the same rules. Some people take issue with some aspects of the NEB, but the key thing with the NEB is that, on this point, it's consistent with wh

Fisheries committee  Thank you. Yes, I think streamlined is the correct way to characterize it. With respect to what the pipeline industry does and how it responds to protecting fish habitat and so on, we would say, as I said in our statement, that we reviewed this and there is no change in terms of

Fisheries committee  Yes.