Environment committee  Well, traditional knowledge is a mandatory factor for consideration, and it says it must be taken into consideration.

Environment committee  To have it scoped would be contradictory to saying it must be taken into consideration, because what you can do in subsection 22(2) of the proposed impact assessment act is be able to scope the factors on a project-by-project basis and provide a rationale for why something is sco

Environment committee  You're doing that. You may also be saying it's not relevant to a particular assessment and providing a rationale for that.

Environment committee  It goes against the “must”.

Environment committee  A decision to move to a panel is taken by the minister.

Environment committee  This is the place where you can request additional information in the information gathering place. This is at the notice of commencement and the information gathering section. We are also currently out on a consultation paper right now to talk about what would be the limits or

Environment committee  Under “General Rules”, on page 21 of the bill, there are general rules on impact assessments conducted by the agency, starting in section 24—

Environment committee  —and going to subsection 26(2)

Environment committee  Subsection 19(1) lays out the timeline for completing the information required for an impact assessment, which is three years, and if a proponent feels they need more than three years to provide that information, then we can extend the timeline.

Environment committee  I'll turn to Justice to answer that.

Environment committee  The information and time management regulation that we're currently consulting on now—there's a consultation paper out there—would lay out the information that the agency would require of a proponent, as well as the requirements of the agency on what they need to give the propone

Environment committee  The tailored guidelines would replace what is currently known as the EIS, the environmental impact statement.

Environment committee  The regulation would prescribe what would be in the tailored guidelines that would be given to a proponent for them to fill their information requirements to conduct the assessment.

Environment committee  The guidelines are part of the process, yes. That's what requires the information that the proponent needs to bring forward in the impact assessment process. The guidelines are the culmination of the feedback that we would receive from the public, from indigenous groups, from oth

Environment committee  Perhaps I could just add that as part of the legislation, conditions of decisions and statements are enforceable. A follow-up and monitoring program could be a condition of a decision statement, and those are enforceable.