Impact Assessment Act and Canadian Energy Regulator Act

They'll see 39 around Canada.

Yeah, project approval and environmental acts like the Impact Assessment Act, Species at Risk Act.

And there, yeah, being issues around a lack of free prior consent with indigenous folks.

And yeah, there's a lot of, there's a lot of impact here.

There's one place where actually I think I can say, okay, I had a meaningfully positive influence and I changed some opinions.

I had a meeting with Minister Gilbeau after, you know, once Bill C-69 had been enacted and it was the Impact Assessment Act, and one other key minister as well, Wilkinson, And there was a group of business people in there in this meeting.

There's probably 20 of us.

I made the point that that legislation was stifling a new investment in the energy sector in Canada.

Today we're taking the next step toward delivering a project that will strengthen Canada's trade infrastructure for generations to come.

Listing RBT2 under the Act provides greater regulatory certainty to help advance this critical infrastructure project while maintaining rigorous environmental safeguards and consultation with Indigenous communities.

This is an important step forward as our trade infrastructure faces growing pressure.

That was Federal Transport Minister Steve McKinnon.

But yeah, I do.

I do think that that's and I think as well, you know, we talked last time we recorded about the fact that the Impact Assessment Act is probably going again to the Supreme Court.

The Impact Assessment Act, C-69 and C-64, the tanker ban legislation are both, I think, pieces that have to be addressed if we do want to increase energy production.

And so I think those two go hand in hand.

And I think that the, no pun intended, but the sea change for that is very much underway.

And the No More Pipelines Law, indeed.

It's so otherwise known as the Impact Assessment Act.

That's my lawyer hat coming on.

On October 9th, four to the five judges of the Alberta Court of Appeal said the Impact Assessment Act or the No More Pipelines Law is still unconstitutional, despite Ottawa making changes to it a few years ago.

So kind of the one sentence version of what the court said.

They called it essentially that Ottawa just repainted the walls of a condemned house and called it a renovation.

Takes you three seconds.

to hit that link and add your name to the fight to end all carbon taxes.

So it wasn't that.

It was the infamous Bill C-69, which became the Impact Assessment Act, and the tanker ban, which doesn't actually ban tanker traffic, it only bans loading and unloading, which was clearly then not an issue of tankers, it was an issue of pipelines.

Though it was clearly directed at preventing a pipeline to the West Coast.

The current government has not only addressed that, but is building one, is going to help make sure one another gets built.

And surprisingly not newsworthy, the Impact Assessment Act is no longer going to apply to that project.

It is a recognition that Albertan environmental legislation, impact assessment legislation will apply.

That was a massive irritant.

A major frustration for Albertans in our relationship with Ottawa and Canada is we feel we're dismissed.

We're dismissed in terms of legally, you know, the courts have ruled again about the intrusion into our jurisdiction two weeks ago, Court of Appeal on the Impact Assessment Act.

We feel we're dismissed in terms of the value that we provide monetarily, taxation, equalization, that our voice doesn't get heard.

So...