Canadians rely on regulatory and permitting processes to understand costs to people, animals, air, and water as well as the substantial benefits and tradeoffs between various courses of action. [...] Productivity, the value of the goods and services created compared to the effort and inputs that go into making them, is foundational to Canadian living standards. [...] While Canada needs more investment of all kinds, major projects are especially crucial and provide ways to import the things we need, extract or manufacture products, provide routes to export markets, and make and transmit the electricity needed to power it all. [...] In a forthcoming paper, we propose that provincial and federal governments agree on who the primary decision-maker is regarding a project; that we leave the decision-making to expert tribunals rather than politicians and courts; we assess whether existing review processes achieve the objective of improving the environmental performance of projects (i.e. [...] are we getting a "bang for our buck"); that proponents can count on the process and approvals; and that participants consistently and sincerely adhere to respectful consultation procedures with Indigenous groups.
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