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Phenomenal achievement

This is great news. Alberta needs a way for its own approvals for provincial autonomy. Canada federal and provincial government working together with provincial approval is better for alberta jobs and canada jobs. We need more industrial and buisness investment in Canada to grow, not just small service jobs. Let's stop the big bureaucracy and fasten the approval rate.

Alberta's process is deficient

I am submitting these comments as an Indigenous woman, a Section 35 rights‑holder, and a professional with more than twenty years of experience in Crown–Indigenous consultation, regulatory processes, and Indigenous rights impact assessment. My experience spans provincial, federal, and Indigenous‑governed systems, including direct participation in consultation processes under Alberta’s Consultation Policy and Guidelines as well as Canada’s processes through the Impact Assessment Agency and the Canada Energy Regulator.After reviewing the Draft Co‑operation Agreement between Alberta and Canada, I have significant concerns that the proposed framework fails to uphold the honour of the Crown, does not meet constitutional standards for consultation…

The Alberta Impact Assessment Process does not match Federal processes

Canada’s environmental assessment system exists to protect the public interest, uphold Indigenous rights, and ensure that major projects do not compromise the health of ecosystems or communities. The draft Co‑operation Agreement Between Alberta and Canada fails to meet that standard. Instead, it proposes a framework in which the federal government systematically defers to a provincial environmental assessment (EA) regime that is narrower, weaker, and structurally incapable of addressing federal responsibilities.The agreement repeatedly commits Canada to rely on Alberta’s processes “to address adverse effects within federal jurisdiction” for projects primarily under provincial jurisdiction (Clause 1(1)) and to avoid “duplicative decision‑making” by…

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