Environment committee  Are you not concerned about the fact that climate change is not one of the government's five priorities?

Environment committee  I think the results achieved so far are disturbing. If climate change remains a priority for Canada, it is disturbing that we do not have a much more aggressive and rigorous approach in order to move from slowing down emissions to actually reducing green house gas emissions

Environment committee  We often talk about the cost of inaction. It is true that inaction does involve a cost. However, in the course of our work, we saw no studies that provided any information on the cost of adaptation and the consequences of climate change, for example. This information

Environment committee  Do you think we can deal with climate change on our own, or must we be part of a bigger effort? Should there be international cooperation through treaties such as the Kyoto Protocol?

Environment committee  It has been mentioned, Ms. Gélinas, that the previous government wanted to invest close to $6 billion in climate change activities. $1.6 billion was actually spent, which means that there is still $4.5 billion floating around somewhere. Actually, I am not sure I understand

Environment committee  My colleague was saying earlier that we will revisit the smog issue for next year's report. We have looked here and there at some air quality issues, but not as we did for climate change, with one focus and covering the broader aspects of it. But as Richard is involved

Environment committee  I appreciate that. Could we pass on, then, to the climate change issue? I just wanted a general answer. But that is coming.

Environment committee   at seriously, I will probably be here again five years from now and have an almost cut-and-paste copy of this section. I also would like to remind you that in 1998 we looked at climate change and almost said the same thing. So things have not evolved that much in terms of good governance

Environment committee   to know is that even though Treasury Board now is working on this framework--and you will remember that Treasury Board came here and talked about the RMAF, the framework for the pilot on climate change, to develop this framework on horizontal issues. The reality is still that even

Environment committee  There was some economic analysis, but it was not detailed. We couldn't find any social, environmental, and risk analysis linked to this. Climate change is not only about the environment, it's also about sustainable development; it's about our way of living, because it's linked

Environment committee   there was a situation that needed to be better controlled, and they decided to pilot this. With respect to climate change and horizontal issues involving a number of departments, they wanted to put a system in place so that we could capture this kind of information, so they piloted--

Environment committee   are not coded the right way, and what is climate change and what is something else--sometimes it's not obvious. They call things different things. But we were still able to get to the amount of money spent on those programs.

Environment committee  I'm trying to understand this--and I asked you this question during the last committee hearing. Who is in charge? What minister was in charge of climate change in Canada?

Environment committee  Do you think this tool would still be advantageous for Canada and that it should be taken into consideration in the future climate change mitigation plan?

Environment committee  Yes. The National Climate Change Secretariat produced a report in 2003, if I'm not mistaken, the latest one. Their function was one of coordination amongst the departments.