Sen. Black told CBC that not only will the new process slow approvals down, but the way the bill has been written gives too much power to ministers to approve or deny a project — leaving industry asking if it’s worth investing in Canada at all.
Those concerns appear to be shared by more people in the Senate than Black. A Conservative official in the Senate, who asked not to be named, told CBC News that there are fears the new regime will exponentially expand the bureaucracy required to get a project approved.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-approval-process-facing-fight-1.4790222?cmp=rss