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Minutes of Proceedings

Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development (ENVI)

42nd Parliament, 1st Session

Meeting No. 103

Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 11:02 a.m. to 1:48 p.m.

Room 410, Wellington Building, 197 Sparks Street

Presiding

Deborah Schulte, Chair (Liberal)

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Members of the Committee present

Liberal

John Aldag
William Amos
Mike Bossio
Darren Fisher
Deborah Schulte
Jonathan Wilkinson, Parliamentary Secretary — Non-Voting Member

Conservative

NDP

Linda Duncan

Acting Members present

• Colin Carrie for Joël Godin (Conservative)

• Sean Fraser for Churence Rogers (Liberal)

Other Members present

• James Maloney (Liberal)

In attendance

Library of Parliament

• Alison Clegg, Analyst

• Alexandre Lavoie, Analyst

• Sarah Yakobowski, Analyst

Bill C-69, An Act to enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, to amend the Navigation Protection Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts

Witnesses

Assembly of First Nations

• Kluane Adamek, Interim Regional Chief, Yukon Region

• Sara Mainville, Legal Counsel

• Graeme Reed, Senior Policy Analyst

Fort McKay First Nation

• Chief Jim Boucher

• Alvaro Pinto, Executive Director, Sustainability Department

• Tarlan Razzaghi, Legal counsel

Indigenous Advisory and Monitoring Committee for the Trans Mountain Pipelines and Marine Shipping

• Chief Ernie Crey, Indigenous Co-Chair

• Tim Dickson, Legal Counsel, Indigenous Caucus

Smart Prosperity Institute

• Stewart Elgie, Executive Chair

Suncor Energy Inc.

• Virginia Flood, Vice-President, Government Relations

British Columbia Assembly of First Nations

• Terry Teegee, Regional Chief

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society

• Alison Ronson, National Director, Parks Program

As an individual

• Martin Olszynski, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary

Pursuant to the Order of Reference of Monday, March 19, 2018, the Committee resumed consideration of Bill C-69, An Act to enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, to amend the Navigation Protection Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts.

Martin Olszynski, Alison Ronson, Stewart Elgie, and Virginia Flood made statements and answered questions.

At 12:19 p.m., the sitting was suspended.

At 12:22 p.m., the sitting resumed.

Kluane Adamek, by videoconference from Whitehorse, Yukon, Terry Teegee, by videoconfenrence from Prince George, British Columbia, Chief Jim Boucher and Chief Ernie Crey made statements and, with the other witnesses, answered questions.

At 1:48 p.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.

Thomas Bigelow

Clerk of the Committee