The Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) welcomes the opportunity to comment on the Public Participation Plan (the Plan) for the integrated assessment of the New Nuclear at Wesleyville (NNW) Project. OSPE is the province’s only independent, not-for-profit membership organization representing the engineering profession, with a distribution network reaching over 40,000 engineers across Ontario. Our mandate is to advance the public interest through evidence-based advocacy on matters of engineering, energy, public safety, and environmental stewardship. 

OSPE has been actively engaged in the NNW Project assessment process since the Initial Project Description stage. Our comments on the Plan are informed by that ongoing engagement and by the engineering profession’s commitment to transparent, technically rigorous, and publicly accountable infrastructure decision-making. 

The Plan is procedurally sound and reflects IAAC’s established approach to public participation under the Impact Assessment Act. OSPE’s observations focus on areas where the Plan, as currently drafted, could be strengthened to better serve the objectives it sets for itself: meaningful, early, and informed participation across all five phases of the integrated assessment. Our comments are offered constructively and in recognition that the Plan is explicitly designed to be flexible and adaptive. 

OSPE respectfully requests that IAAC consider the observations set out in this submission. We remain available to discuss any aspect of our feedback and to provide further input as the assessment proceeds.