Environment committee  I'd like to think that we were not quite as absolute as saying they shouldn't have any role. I think what we were really concerned about was the idea that some two of the three legs to environmental assessment right now were largely industry regulators and were, at least in the c

Environment committee  I think I answered that one. Absolutely, I think that is exactly what we need. The only thing I would say is that the Environmental Review Tribunal might be inappropriately focused on environment, relative to what we're speaking of here, because, as I said earlier, I think one o

Environment committee  Do you want me to go first?

Environment committee  First, I think the only example we have of trying to do it right now is in B.C., and the B.C. legislation was modelled on the federal CEAA, so there was certainly an effort in the background of that to make them work together. I would agree with you that, in legal terms, there a

Environment committee  I'm puzzled by how many things you wrapped together there. What the legislation does is not, with respect, what the panel recommended. It's hard when you bring to me what the legislation says and critique it. I will go back to where the panel is. The panel was trying, as I was t

Environment committee  Yes, I would say that.

Environment committee  That's a great question. The panel turned its mind to that, and our answer was to put the whole thing under the heading of “sustainability”. The meaning of sustainability we had as five pillars. The idea was that you would balance those five things. What I want to distinguish

Environment committee  Wow. That was very nicely compressed. Let me try to deal with some of that. Yes, I do hear the point and the point is well made about the issue of how one entity can deal with these various aspects. I don't have a simple answer for you other than I think we do have a path where

Environment committee  I've been invited just this second to be next, so I will take the honour. I'm very pleased to be here. This is the third or fourth time I have been before this committee over a long time—20 years—and I'm always honoured to do this. I am arriving in my personal capacity, but I am