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Louis-Gilles Francoeur

Louis-Gilles Francoeur is former vice-president of the Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement and former journalist at Le Devoir.

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female resident orca whale, swimming, Puget Sound, Bainbridge Island,

Political appointments undermine environmental assessment process

Allowing political appointees on federal environmental assessment review panels is hardly compatible with the independence required to do a credible job, says a former senior official with Quebec's assessment agency.

By Louis-Gilles Francoeur in Analysis, Politics | June 6th 2018

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