Environment committee  I don't think it's a question of the standing test alone. I think that an appropriate process to replace the standing test, where that process is well known and understood, is not a problem. I don't think the standing test alone is the issue here.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  And it should.

Environment committee  It should. I mean, what's adding to the uncertainty is that, consultation, instead of serving its process of ensuring that people are heard and have an ability to influence the decision, has the ability to just become a barrier.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  There are two issues. One is the actual timeline allotted for each of the phases. Especially in the front end, there's a lot of room where it's this many days and it can be extended 90 days, to another 90 days, and to another, kind of ad infinitum. There should be less ability to

Environment committee  I don't think the expanded factors is an issue, because right now they are looking at expanded factors. I think what has been the issue so far is that the scope has not been clear of what's required in this process. De facto, these processes currently are looking at a broader ran

Environment committee  As I said, I don't think rigorous assessment is unwelcome. Canada right now has one of the most rigorous assessment processes in the world. The challenge is the implementation of that process and what that means. The fact that decisions are revisited and revisited and revisited m

Environment committee  No, other than that clearly a process needs to be established, so an adjudicator's office would be one idea. There has to be some way to establish exactly which groups have common commentaries and group them together. People need to know in advance what that process is so that ne

Environment committee  I think the issue is not with the impact assessments themselves.

Environment committee  Industry wants impact assessments. It wants them well defined. The issue is indeterminate timing, decisions that are politically motivated that happen at two points in the process rather than at one. That just creates greater and greater uncertainty.

Environment committee  The opportunity is the planning process, so the decision at the end of the planning process is the national interest decision. That's the time for the political decision.

Environment committee  Yes, you did.

Environment committee  I think we saw that with the northern gateway decision, where a project had been approved by the regulator and the previous government and then--

Environment committee  Yes.