Natural Resources committee  No, this summer was the first time. It's a coordinated effort between Environment Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, DND, and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. It was done within our authorities to show that if we were asked to chart the Arctic, this is how the group would

Natural Resources committee  The answer is yes. There are islands in the Northwest Passage that some summers are there and some summers they're below water. The erosion you see when you're up there is such that we should be measuring it. There's erosion because the ice is free. In the old days, winds and s

Natural Resources committee  We ran a pilot project this summer and did 550 square kilometres. There is a plan to do an identical project next summer during the time when the Northwest Passage is open, which is approximately six weeks in the summer, roughly in the latter part of August and the first part of

Natural Resources committee  With respect to all the data that's developed, whether it's space-based, airborne, or even underwater as well, the mandate for data is that it be spread across many entities. The standard has to be developed so that we march to the same tune. All of those entities have to ensure

Natural Resources committee  Basically I concur. Data has to be on the same georeference. All levels need to march to that georeference and proceed accordingly.

Natural Resources committee  I'll try to say this again, to answer the other question as well. There are clearly changes that are taking place. Water temperature is going up. Air temperature is going up. Pollution indexes are changing and variable. Coastlines are changing with this, and that's a combination

Natural Resources committee  There are 70 earth observation satellites up there right now. Canada has four of them. In ten years there will be somewhere around 280--more than 250--and those are the ones that are on the books right now. Canada is a country of choice for downlinking, and that's because we ar

Natural Resources committee  It is true that local sources of pollution travel around the world. That's a given. We see it every day with our satellite data. If you start with the Montreal Protocol, where they took baselines from the 1990 level, you can establish who is adding more anthropogenic substances i

Natural Resources committee  You cannot make a statement like that in a vacuum. It is true if we stop changing the atmosphere, things will settle down. If we stop adding things into the atmosphere, things will settle down, but you can't make it in a vacuum. You have to understand what's happening with the ec

Natural Resources committee  You can't say that. These changes can be seen every day. I can't say exactly what will happen in 10 years or what parameters will be more difficult to understand 10 years from now. What we can do is show you the data today and show you what you need to work at. The caribou paths

Natural Resources committee  Yes, that's it.

Natural Resources committee  I didn't say that.

Natural Resources committee  I studied the atmosphere for several years when I was young. In all of that, I learned that we didn't know exactly what would happen to our atmosphere. However, we know it is very fragile. What we did with the ozone layer is a specific case. We changed the amount of CFCs in the a

Natural Resources committee  Pardon?

Natural Resources committee  I think our 3-D map that's being developed by RADARSAT-2 and the follow-up map that will come from Constellation will be at the heart of all the other data sets that you put on top of that map to understand what's going on from a geological point of view. So the example I gave ea