Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources
First Session, Forty-second Parliament, 2015-16-17-18-19
Chair: The Honourable ROSA GALVEZ
Friday, April 26, 2019
Issue No. 67
Twenty-ninth and thirtieth meetings:
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
Friday, April 26, 2019 (morning)
Government of Quebec:
Benoit Charette, Minister of the Environment and the Fight Against Climate Change;
Marie-Josée Lizotte, Assistant Deputy Minister for Environmental Authorizations and Assessments, Department of the Environment and the Fight against Climate Change;
Éric Théroux, Assistant Deputy Minister for the Fight against Climate Change, Department of the Environment and the Fight against Climate Change;
Yves Rochon, Director General of Strategic and Environmental Assessment, Department of the Environment and the Fight against Climate Change.
Secrétariat international francophone pour l'évaluation environnementale:
Gilles Côté, Director General.
Quebec Center for Environmental Law:
Karine Péloffy, Legal Counsel.
Enbridge Inc.:
Al Monaco, President and Chief Executive Officer;
Ramona Salamucha, Senior Legal Counsel.
Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en opérationnalisation du développement durable:
Pierre-Olivier Roy, Energy Lead, Senior Analyst and Analyst at the Centre international de référence sur le cycle de vie des produits, procédés et services.
Montreal Economic Institute:
Daniel Dufort, Director of External Relations;
Germain Belzile, Senior Research Associate.
Équiterre:
Sidney Ribaux, Co-founder and General Manager;
Caroline Brouillette, Researcher, Public Policy.
Friday, April 26, 2019 (afternoon)
WSP:
André-Martin Bouchard, World Director, Environment and Resources, WSP Global Inc.;
Martin Larose, Vice-President, Environment and Operations, Quebec, WSP Canada Inc..
As an individual:
Louis-Gilles Francœur, Environmental Journalist and Former Vice-President of the Bureau d'audiences publiques du Québec.
Association québécoise pour l'évaluation d'impacts:
Yves Comtois, Member and Lecturer, University of Sherbrooke.
La Planète s'invite à l'Université:
Sami Jai Wagner Beaulieu, Representative;
Andréane Moreau, Representative.
Association québécoise de lutte contre la pollution atmosphérique:
André Bélisle, Chair.
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
The Honourable Rosa Galvez, Chair
The Honourable Michael L. MacDonald, Deputy Chair
and
The Honourable Senators:
Carignan, P.C., *Day (or Mercer), *Harder, P.C. (or Bellemare) (or Mitchell), Massicotte, McCallum, Miville-Dechêne, Mockler, Neufeld, Patterson, Pratte, Richards, Seidman, Simons, *Smith (or Martin), *Woo (or Saint-Germain)
* Ex officio members
(Quorum 4)
Changes in membership of the committee:
Pursuant to rule 12-5 and to the orders of the Senate of November 7, 2017 and of November 20, 2018, membership of the committee was amended as follows:
The Honourable Senator Miville-Dechêne replaced the Honourable Senator Woo (April 26, 2019).
The Honourable Senator Pratte replaced the Honourable Senator Cormier (April 25, 2019).