Canada's current review processes are bumbling around during the political determination stage and that is where changes need to happen.

Multiple groups have attempted to hijack the scientific fact finding stage and the engagement stage in order to exert pressure at the political stage.  Changes to these early stages aren't required for anything except political reasons.

One solution to the current process issues would be to disallow political intervention in the earlier stages but this is difficult to do when complaints at these stages clearly add pressure for the eventual political determination.

Proposed changes to the NEB's processes include making the political determination first but this is unlikely to work without governments that are totally committed to supporting the original decision.

At the end of the day governments must be willing to make decisions despite adverse political pressure.  Without this no other changes will improve the process.