Natural Resources committee  As a point of clarification, the statute on which most of our comments and interventions are based today is the Environmental Assessment Act, which came into force in 1995. Prior to 1992, this would have been under the previous regime, which was the environmental assessment review process guidelines order, which was similar in some ways to, but markedly different from, the statutory regime we have in place now.

Natural Resources committee  Just building a bit on that response as my colleague Mr. Streiner has explained, the mitigation measures to reduce the impacts are included in the permit issued by the department, the responsible authority. There is also a “follow-up” component. Those departments—the responsible authorities—also have an obligation to follow up to ensure that, over time, these mitigation measures have in fact been implemented.