Environment committee  No.

Environment committee  Can you hear me better now?

Environment committee  The first point is for the Minister of Finance's annual report to include the federal financial institutions that I mentioned. The other point, a subpoint, is for the Minister of Finance's annual report to include the percent of major suppliers to the federal government for net

Environment committee  I can confine it to 30 words, if I can have 30 words.

Environment committee  Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. I'm going to make two general brief points. The first point relates to reporting. As Peter Drucker, the management theorist, once said, “What gets measured, gets managed.” Hopefully this act includes a provision for the Minister of Finance

Environment committee  At the top of the opportunities, first would be—

Environment committee  It's here at my lips.

Environment committee  Thank you for the question. The top three opportunities would be the following. First, it is not obvious for everyone in the building sector that Canada has 12 of the top 50 landlords in the world, the largest commercial real estate investors, starting at Brookfield and all the

Environment committee  Yes. I think I can manage that. Thanks a lot.

Environment committee  Thank you, Chair.

Environment committee  I'm sorry that I don't, but I just learned about this last night.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, just a really short contribution. According to the National Electric Reliability Corporation, between now and 2022—with most of it happening by 2017—71 gigawatts of fossil fuel power generation will be retired in the U.S. That's a ton of energy. and there's going to be a re

Natural Resources committee  Thank you kindly for the question. You raised the important question of climate change. And if we want to make a dent in climate change where we can on this continent, there's one place to do it and one place only: it's not the oil sands. The oil sands is 50 million tonnes; it's

Natural Resources committee  I would say two things, and they both have a lot to do with accounting—if we're just going to limit it to two things. One is we don't currently include our commercial natural resource wealth on the balance sheet of our nation. Australia does. They do include their oil and their

Natural Resources committee  Sure. The first one isn't the most conventional type of risk most people would think of, but it's the risk that it's easier to get pigeonholed, and we as a country have been pigeonholed in the U.S.—I would argue somewhat unfairly—as a dirty energy purveyor, and we could be much m