Environment committee  Thank you for the question. This is a very problematic issue and there is no easy answer. The problem with leaving all of that to the action plan stage is that it is fairly late in the process and there's a lot of investment that has gone in, a lot of resources that have been al

Environment committee  Absolutely.

Environment committee  I think perhaps Professor Mooers can speak to that, but I would say given that for any regulatory decision you have to prepare a regulatory impact statement, it's appropriate to have a socio-economic analysis as part of that statement.

Environment committee  I guess I would get back to the point I made before, about the clear demarcation between the scientific question to hand, which is the identification of critical habitat, and then the less scientific or non-scientific value-based decision as to whether we are going to proceed to

Environment committee  I think that the view of the scientific community.... I would say there are two things. The first thing is that when you put together this type of experiment, you need to be clear about where particular elements fit in. In my view, and I think this is shared by a number of my c

Environment committee  Especially under the two court decisions that have been rendered—this was failure to identify critical habitat in both cases—the finding was that it was not in keeping with the spirit of SARA that those kinds of considerations were creeping into the ministerial decision--ultimate

Environment committee  Perhaps I could make three quick comments. The first one is with respect to the DFO effect on listing. This analysis has yet to be updated, but it's very clear that hitherto, at least up until the fairly recent past, there were different processes being followed by DFO on the on

Environment committee  Thank you for the question. I think there are a couple of issues there. I think all of us here would agree that, in keeping with the spirit of SARA, the identification of critical habitat ought to be based on biological criteria. In the analysis that Stewart and I have done ove

Environment committee  It's absolutely a work in progress and our task is to improve that work.

Environment committee  Perhaps I can address that issue. The issue of the demarcation between science and policy, or science and implementation, is a pervasive issue, and it's not unique, by any stretch of the imagination, to the SARA case. You see this, for example, in the context of chemicals asses

Environment committee  Thank you very much. Thank you for the invitation. As was said in the introduction, my name is Scott Findlay and I'm a professor of biology at the University of Ottawa. One of my areas of expertise is conservation biology. For the last few years I've been working with my colle