Senate Environment Committee eyeing Fort McMurray, southern Alberta First Nation for stops on cross-country tour for environmental assessment reform bill

'We want to go to a First Nation reserve that is involved in the oil and gas industry, people who have skin in the game,' says Conservative Senator Michael MacDonald.

Independent Senators Rosa Galvez, Paula Simons, and Mary Jane McCallum, and Conservative Senator Michael MacDonald are part of the 14-member Senate Environment Committee that is heading west, then east, in April to hold public hearings on Bill C-69, which would overhaul the federal environmental assessment process. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade, file photograph, and photographs courtesy of Senator Rosa Galvez and Senator Mary Jane McCallum

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

March 11, 2019

The Senate Environment Committee will spend two days in Alberta, and travel to Saskatoon, Winnipeg, and Vancouver in the second week of April as part of its study of the government’s environmental assessment reform bill, C-69, before heading east later that month, ac...

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