The Globe and Mail reports in its Monday edition that when it comes to looking at energy and infrastructure in Canada, it appears that almost everything is in transition. The Globe's guest columnist Kim Baird writes that the federal government has recently implemented a new Pipeline Safety Act and is in the process of reviewing everything from National Energy Board (NEB) regulations to environmental-protection legislation. Last fall, the government also assumed a leadership position at the Paris climate-change conference, committing Canada to a more ambitious program to reduce national (and global) emissions to a level that might limit the world's temperature increase to 1.5 C. The federal government has triggered three new processes and extended its decision-making time frame on the Trans Mountain project by four months. It has empowered Environment and Climate Change Canada to report on upstream greenhouse-gas emissions generated in the production of bitumen destined for the pipeline. It has directed continuing and deeper consultations with first nations. It has created a panel to seek answers to questions the NEB did not ask and to hear input from those the NEB overlooked.