Tribunal orders removal of confidential settlement offer from late-filed witness statement in licence transfer proceeding.
The Tribunal convened a status hearing regarding the referral of the Minister's proposed transfer of two aggregate licences.
The proposed transferee requested direction on whether the parties' experts were required to meet at the subject lands to prepare a Statement of Agreed Facts.
The Tribunal declined to compel the parties to meet on the lands.
The appellant raised concerns about a late-filed witness statement from the proposed transferee that improperly included a confidential, without-prejudice settlement offer.
The Tribunal ordered the proposed transferee to file a revised witness statement removing the confidential letter and any references to it, and accepted the revised statement as reply evidence.
Lafarge Canada Inc. v. Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry (Ministry), 2023 CanLII 92331