Principles

Fostering sustainability.

Promoting communication and cooperation with Indigenous peoples and respecting their rights.

Meaningfully engaging with the public and Indigenous groups early and often.

Renewing nation-to-nation, Inuit-Crown, and government-to-government relationships.

Making decisions based on science and evidence, including Indigenous and community knowledge.

Reducing duplication through a one project, one assessment approach.

Establishing a fair, predictable, and efficient impact assessment process that enhances Canada’s competitiveness and promotes innovation.

Broadening the factors assessed — both positive and adverse — to protect environmental, health, social and economic conditions.

Assessing cumulative effects of physical activities.

Encouraging improvements to impact assessments through follow-up programs.

Creating certainty and predictability through legislated timelines.