Senators come together on C-69 amendments, but far off pace to meet May 16 deadline for committee

Conservative and Independent Senators worked in good faith last week to hash out amendments to the most controversial bill in the Senate, but were only able to get through a fraction of the potential amendments on the table.

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is responsible for making good on the 2015 Liberal election promise to overhaul Canada's environmental impact assessment system, and introduced the 500-page Bill C-69 last year to do that.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

May 13, 2019

Senators on the Environment Committee found common ground last week on proposed amendments to curtail the environment minister’s powers to intervene in the early stages of the new environmental assessment process laid out under Bill C-69, the sweeping reform to envir...

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