Where a land-use authority or municipality has established a public consultation process for antenna systems, who determines how public consultation should take place?

Under ISED's antenna siting procedures (CPC-2-0-03), proponents of antenna systems are required to follow the public consultation process established by the local land-use authority (LUA) or municipality. Because the local authority best understands its own community, it is empowered to design the mechanics of how the public should be engaged. Distractors suggesting that ISED, the provincial government, or the antenna builder dictates the consultation process are incorrect. ISED explicitly defers to the consultation framework created by the local LUA, and only imposes its own default process if the local authority lacks one.