A government source said that the court’s ruling would give the new working group on regulatory efficiency for clean growth projects direction on the work it’s undertaking to improve the regulatory process.Labour and Seniors Minister Seamus O’Regan is pictured in this file photo.
As the Liberal government weighs next steps in the wake of Friday’s Supreme Court ruling, a new cabinet working group tasked with supporting the development of clean growth projects will take a prominent role in examining possible changes to the environmental assessment process,The court’s decision that the Liberals’ Impact Assessment Act was unconstitutional has prompted a rethink by the government on how to best manage the regulatory process for major projects, namely energy and mining...
While the Liberals have stressed that the decision was only an opinion on the legality of the bill, both Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault and Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson on Friday confirmed that the government would review the act and make necessary adjustments and then “work quickly to improve the legislation through Parliament.”