Every year the Environmental Assessment Act applies to literally thousands of projects that are worth in total billions of dollars. Many of the projects, of course, have the potential to damage air quality, our health, our water, our wildlife, and our natural spaces in Canada, so the importance of the environmental assessment—of getting it right—is hard to exaggerate.
Chaque année, la Loi canadienne sur l'évaluation environnementale s'applique à des milliers de projets totalisant des milliards de dollars et nombre d'entre eux peuvent influencer fortement notre air, notre santé, notre eau, notre faune et nos espaces naturels.