Environment committee  It's a panel report that goes through a summary of the information the panel has heard, as well as a summary of their findings, their recommendations, and the conditions they would like the minister or the government to consider in their decision-making and approval process.

Environment committee  They develop their report as per terms of reference that are set by the Minister of Environment and Climate Change.

Environment committee  The process is that they have terms of reference that are set by the Minister of Environment and Climate Change. They are required to prepare a report and submit that report.

Environment committee  To my knowledge, I'm not aware of anything, but we can come back on that in the future if the committee chooses.

Environment committee  I said no, in my knowledge.

Environment committee  Just to talk about the agency currently, the agency is currently operating assessments under the 1992 legislation, which is still carried forward, as well as the 2012 legislation. Therefore, the agency is quite familiar with operating under different pieces of legislation as we t

Environment committee  The transition provisions for the NEB and the CER are dealt with in another piece of legislation, but there's also a piece that says those projects that are currently being undertaken by the NEB and the CER under CEAA 2012 would remain under CEAA 2012 and would be completed under

Environment committee  There are provisions within the proposed CER to transition the NEB and carry forward things. My colleagues can speak to that in more detail.

Environment committee  We've gone and looked at how many projects are currently in the system and we estimated where they may be. We're probably looking at approximately 30 projects.

Environment committee  It's further to what I explained earlier. Proposed paragraph 119(2)(b) exists because panels are considered to have the functions of courts as they can call witnesses together, in particular when they're working jointly with the life-cycle regulator to be able to meet the conditi

Environment committee  In this context, it's not a court proceeding as you're interpreting it. It's that the panels are able to call witnesses forward. As I articulated earlier, if they are calling forward that information, first and foremost, in proposed subsection 119(1), the information is treated

Environment committee  I'll turn to the Department of Justice to explain the drafting of this.

Environment committee  Thank you. The proposed amendment says “the committee”.

Environment committee  Decisions are based on reports. A full report goes forward that's made publicly available, and all the information that was taken into the decision-making is disclosed in that public report.

Environment committee  In proposed paragraph (a), obviously, it's that the information is publicly available. Proposed paragraph (b) is there because panel-type functions are allowed to call forward witnesses, just as courts are allowed to, so we need to make sure that, for procedural fairness, there i