Environment committee  Absolutely. What happens is sometimes you get really good work done by groups looking to achieve some goal: trying to revive the wolf population in an area; trying to save this fisheries; trying to look at endocrine-disrupting chemicals and see if they can be reduced. As I said e

Environment committee  I think we need all of it, but the question in front of all of us is whether it's our household budget or our national budget there are only so many things we can do. The reason I'm pushing for a framework is that the question of whether we have enough investment in the science

Environment committee  A vision for a monitoring plan.... Well, monitoring is critical. It's complicated, but it's critical because we can't really say anything about how well we are doing, and to do what I referred to as this term “adaptive management”, which really means that you commit to a process,

Environment committee  Yes. My answer is that it would be nice if it were simply one of those things. This is not the only government around the globe that's struggling with these kinds of complex issues. It takes all of those things. You've heard eloquent testimony about how difficult and challeng

Environment committee  Sure. The idea of contamination where there's a lot of development and there's a lot of activity is what's facing us and facing Manitoulin Island in terms of this development. It's a matter of scale, so absolutely. To go to your earlier question about the increase in population

Environment committee  I appreciate your question and letting me re-articulate that. Perhaps, it was due in part to my not pacing myself well and missing some comments. The point to be made in my notes was that was low-hanging fruit but it's critical and it's important and one must stay the course in

Environment committee  I have a little familiarity with it. I would turn this over to Theresa, who can tell you more about the details. I can tell you, from working between the academic and the agricultural community, that in just the kind of circumstance you're describing, people are always asking th

Environment committee  Sure. We were parsing it in two ways. You have projected population growth in Canada. Also, my colleagues in the water community are always talking about the fact that even in the global sense, Canada has a lot of water. Most of the population is in the south, concentrated in cer

Environment committee  That's a Stats Canada number, so I was speaking to the numbers in terms of my personal experience with it. That's not separated out in that chart in terms of the federal or Ontario funding per se. That statement is in taking the whole basin, so Canada and the U.S. together, and i

Environment committee  The statistics that it's taken from.... If you look over time, it's one of those questions where it depends on how you do the numbers, in terms of corrected for a given year. In general, the overall funding for R and D went up slightly in the late 2000s, and then I think it went

Environment committee  That speaks to the overall investment that.... One of the concerns is there has been a big decline in terms of benchmarking Canada's performance against other countries in the OECD and elsewhere, in the ability to leverage that private sector component on top of the public. That

Environment committee  That's right.

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would also like to thank the honourable members of the committee for the invitation to the Canadian Water Network to speak along with my colleagues on this important topic for Canada. I am the executive director of Canadian Water Network, which is a nati