Environment committee   by contaminated sites. I will now move on to the remaining three reports on measures to combat climate change. Our recent reports examined the two largest emission sectors. This year, we looked at other major sources of emissions, which are building materials, manufacturing industries

Environment committee   climate change, how things are getting so much better on the greenhouse gas emissions front, how our investments are targeted and how everything is working. However, Mr. DeMarco told us last week that it really isn't working as well as people think despite all the money being spent. I

Environment committee   tax emissions projection was when the director general of the economic analysis directorate for Environment and Climate Change Canada stated, “I think we're probably in a world where we could say, with some rough analysis, that up to one-third, potentially, of the emissions

Environment committee  One other really concerning thing—as I was reading the reports—is in the agriculture and climate change mediation report. The fact that the department has achieved less than 2% of its overall 2030 emissions reduction target and there are only six growing seasons left to achieve

Environment committee   work on both sides of the GHG ledger, if you want to call it that, in terms of both reducing emissions and sequestering and storing more carbon. They also directly benefit from measures to mitigate climate change for the reasons that you mentioned in terms of at least mitigating

Environment committee   the website.” Another motion passed, because that was insufficient, which led to a document that was created by...I don't even know who it was created by. They don't work for Environment and Climate Change Canada. They don't represent Environment and Climate Change Canada. They're still

Environment committee   opening question will be more or less the same question I asked Mr. DeMarco with respect to oil and gas emissions. Like a lot of Canadians who care about fighting climate change, I've been poring over the reports, both the NIR and the report from the CESD, this week. One of my main

Environment committee  I'll be encouraged when we at least get back to 1990. The earliest we could possibly do that, according to their own projections, is 2026. It's a sad state of affairs that our next target is simply to get back to the starting line. Everyone calls this fight against climate

Environment committee   is not on track to meet the 2030 target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions....” It's very clear why the Liberals are refusing to release this information to Canadians. Their environmental record is a failure. In fact, Canada dropped four rankings in climate change performance last year

Environment committee  The answer is that we use the national inventory in a lot of the work we do on climate change. Have we audited the whole inventory? No. Have we audited bits and pieces? Yes. You'll see those in some of our past reports, including the report we did last year on the Canadian Net

Environment committee  That would be a massive undertaking. We are part of the international...or we see what other countries are doing in terms of their audits on climate change as well. I can't recall a case where the entire national inventory has been under audit. Of course, you can do sectors. You

Environment committee   of Environment regarding the 2022 numbers that came out around noon today showing 708 megatonnes of emissions. As a reasonable person, I went to the website of Environment and Climate Change Canada and looked back at previous years, because they said that this was the lowest in the last 25

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Commissioner, for your report. We'll pick up where we left off, on the ag section. I think the important highlighted quote for me was that Canada has “no strategy in place to guide its climate change mitigation programs and activities”. You

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Commissioner, for being here with us today. I can see that you came here with a sizable team. Combatting climate change is an important issue. I'm truly pleased to see that you're taking it as seriously as we do. I'm going to start

Environment committee   to find a lot of solutions and replacements for single-use plastics. The last thing I wanted to ask about was the federal plastics registry that's going to standardize data around plastics. Are there existing data sources already in Environment and Climate Change Canada