Environment committee  I participated in that study. Buried in there is what's called the “conservation first” principle. It says that often you have to sequence conservation accomplishments up front when you're making economic development decisions, because you aren't going to get a chance down the li

Environment committee  These urban parks—Stanley Park, Central Park in New York, Pleasant Point in Halifax—are seen as hugely far-sighted. Whoever came up with this idea...it was a great idea. It's also equally clear that if they hadn't come up with the idea and if it hadn't been protected, they wouldn

Environment committee  I would go to the end point. I would paint a picture. If people have a park in their backyard, whether they live in the remotest parts of Canada or not, I'd like to hear them saying that they love it. They benefit from it. They use it. There are people who come there and they ben

Environment committee  Yes. Both industry and the conservation community with broader community support have made recommendations to the governments of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Canada regarding the conservation of woodland caribou. I want to emphasize that that's joint advice. In other word

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  I'll try. One of the things that brought us together was that the status quo was no longer sustainable. I mean, it was exhausting. It was resulting in the worst of both worlds for both of us. You kind of say that you can't continue like this. On the more positive side, I think

Environment committee  It's an accommodation of each other's interests. The good negotiator is the one who listens to the other person's position and manages to accommodate as much of it as he or she possibly can, rather than the one who folds their arms and says all he knows is that this is his posi

Environment committee  You can do that. I guess I would suggest that the actual drafting and development of the plan itself be a joint effort, that you bring a diversity of people to the table here. It doesn't have to be a throng of thousands. The people who cobble this together should be representati

Environment committee  I'm sure Bradley will speak to this. Consultation, involvement, seeking support—these are all passive ideas. I've been very busy in the Mackenzie Valley. You'd never hear me say that the conservationists want to protect the ramparts. You'd hear that the conservationists support

Environment committee  I was raised in the bush in northwestern Ontario. I spend a lot of my time reminding my environmental colleagues how that's going to go over in the north if they say it the way they are saying it. I have a foot in both camps, and I am aware of this cultural divide you're talking

Environment committee  I think that often what people want for an area, their aspirations or their desired future, gets articulated in something like a land use plan, which is I think what Bradley was talking about as well. To me, a land use plan should reflect the desired future of the people who liv

Environment committee  I'm very familiar with this percentage argument, and I think it's somewhat artificial. I actually agree with a lot of what Bradley said. I think the percentage of what's conserved or protected should be an output of something else. I think the key is not just the quantity, but th

Environment committee  We think we have consensus between some of the parties. We're still actually talking about something we have not put on the table yet—we're still putting it together—but we're very close. All indications are that this is going to happen.

Environment committee  It involves a great deal of technical work, of modelling, of disturbance regimes, and of wood supply analysis. It's a very technical job. I'm a forester by training and that helps. Let me put it that way.

Environment committee  We're in all of the provinces in which the boreal forest is found, which is all of them except Nova Scotia and P.E.I. We have focused projects in Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, two large pilot projects in Ontario, and one large pilot project in Quebec. Those are priorities