Environment committee  I agree with everybody. I just want to put a plug in for science-based marine planning as well. When you look at the ocean, it looks like a flat nothing, but underneath the ocean there are different ecosystems. On land we have desert and mountains and alpine forests. In the ocean

Environment committee  I believe it's less than 10%.

Environment committee  The oceans strategy is really important on all three coasts—to have leadership that would say it is really important to our country, which has the biggest coastline in the world, to protect our ocean resources. With climate change, our oceans are changing drastically. If we don

Environment committee  That's a good question. I think people who are opposed to the park, who put those “no national park” signs up.... There's no indication whatsoever of public support. Those signs could have been put up by one person or 10 people or a thousand people. There have been three public

Environment committee  Great. [Technical Difficulty—Editor] We have a big opportunity to protect a lot of our country. Many countries around the world have no land left to protect—for example, the United States. Canada has a big responsibility in the world to exceed those targets. I think in the mar

Environment committee  I can give you an on-the-ground example, and that's in northeastern British Columbia. Major oil and gas development happens there, and it's an important part of British Columbia's economy. We believe there should be balance between conservation and industrial development, and tha

Environment committee  Yes, I do, thank you. It's well known that our children are not getting out into the wilderness. They are staying in front of their computer screens, and if that continues, we'll have a drastically different kind of Canadian. So last year, we worked with Parks Canada, B.C. Parks

Environment committee  Thank you, Mark. For those of you reading along, I'll be doing a slightly shortened version of my presentation. My name is Chloe O'Loughlin. I'm the director of terrestrial conservation at the B.C. chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. We are Canada's voice for