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Environment committee Good morning, and thank you, Chair.
March 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Cynthia Wright
Environment committee Thank you. Together my colleagues and I are going to speak to you about the implementation of the Species At Risk Act, or SARA, as we tend to call it. We'll give you a fairly high-level overview of the act and the progress to date. SARA is premised on the view that it is in ou
March 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Cynthia Wright
Environment committee Let me conclude with a few final comments in light of the review. Experience has shown it takes time to achieve recovery. The sea otter, once extirpated from Canada, was reintroduced to the west coast in 1969. Initially assessed as endangered by COSEWIC in 1978, it was downgrad
March 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Cynthia Wright
March 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Cynthia Wright
Environment committee For ensuring that, but they do, actually, execution as well.
March 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Cynthia Wright
Environment committee At Environment Canada for all activities, it's about $60 million—$59.9 million. That would include science, direct enforcement, our administrative responsibilities, including managing the listing process, the actions we take. It would also include the significant funds to fund ot
March 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Cynthia Wright
Environment committee Yes, 98 wildlife-trained officers.
March 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Cynthia Wright
Environment committee It has increased. It increased significantly with budget 2007.
March 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Cynthia Wright
Environment committee Yes. Overall, in 2006 we were spending $40 million, and in 2007-2008, $51 million. That's exclusive of enforcement.
March 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Cynthia Wright
Environment committee Mr. Chair, I believe you're inviting the chair of the COSEWIC committee, when you probably can get more into detail. I wouldn't call it necessarily a backlog. Governments provide a general status report on the status of species in Canada. That's the 7,000-plus that we're tracki
March 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Cynthia Wright
Environment committee In Canada, yes.
March 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Cynthia Wright
Environment committee I think we have about 70,000 species in Canada.
March 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Cynthia Wright
Environment committee I don't know that anybody can say they know how many species they have in their country when, as I said in my opening remarks, only about 15% of the planet's biological diversity has been described in any meaningful way.
March 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Cynthia Wright
Environment committee You could say that.
March 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Cynthia Wright
Environment committee Well, there is activity happening. I guess first of all I should be clear that the tracking is happening at both provincial and territorial levels as well as at the federal government level. There is funding on nomenclature, taxonomy, etc., mostly in museums and academia. There a
March 10th, 2009Committee meeting
Cynthia Wright