From: Sharon Ehaloak Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 5:15

From: Sharon Ehaloak
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 5:15 PM
To: 'Landa, Ken' <[email protected]>
Cc: Alan Blair - Blair Law Group <[email protected]>; Brandon Laforest <[email protected]>; Spencer Dewar
<[email protected]>; Janice Traynor <[email protected]>; [email protected]; Marie Belleau
<[email protected]>; '[email protected]' <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Request for Extension to file
Hi Ken,
Thank you for your correspondence below of Dec. 13, 2016 asking for a time
extension to file an expert report.
As you know, the Commissioners set the timeline for the filing of written materials including expert reports in their October 2016
direction on procedure (DOP).
Unless the Commissioners order otherwise, the timeline established in the DOP continues to apply to all participants.
Respectfully,
Sharon Ehaloak
Executive Director
From: Landa, Ken [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 5:11 PM
To: Sharon Ehaloak <[email protected]>
Cc: Alan Blair - Blair Law Group <[email protected]>; Brandon Laforest <[email protected]>; Spencer Dewar
<[email protected]>; Janice Traynor <[email protected]>; [email protected]; Marie Belleau
<[email protected]>; '[email protected]' <[email protected]>
Subject: Request for Extension to file
Dear Sharon, I hope all is well.
I am writing to request an extension to file an expert report reply to the Ecojustice expert report that deals with ‘existing rights’. In
the ordinary course, our reply would be due Thursday of this week.
We are putting together a paper that we anticipate will help us and the Commission make the legal framework created by NUPPAA
more accessible and understandable to participants in the Commission’s process. Unfortunately this one has fallen behind schedule.
We would like to continue to refine the paper because a confusing or inaccurate filing could do more harm than good.
We think the planning process would be well served by the addition of the paper, and we do not think anyone would be significantly
prejudiced by a delay in filing. The paper attempts to explain the statutory regime that already exists – it does not present any
information that is truly “new”.
Additionally, with the upcoming meetings between NTI, the GN, the IPGs and Canada on NUPPAA related issues, that might be a
forum in which we might refine the way the paper expresses the framework in the Act. Therefore we respectfully request an
extension until January 31. This is a realistic schedule that allows for discussion at the workshop to feed back into the paper if
appropriate, and for finalization and translation to occur after the workshop.
If the Commission considers that extension too long, then we respectfully request a shorter extension, but in any case no earlier
than January 19.
Thanks in advance for considering this request.
Best regards,
Ken Landa
Justice Canada
Kenneth David Landa
Legal Counsel | Avocat
Department of Justice Canada | Ministère de la Justice Canada
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