Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Environment committee  My answer to that would be yes, we should.

Environment committee  I would think it's some element of a clean water perspective, a clean water act. Keeping water on the landscape and providing all of those functions I described earlier would be an important aspect of that.

Environment committee  I would add, in the big picture of wetland conservation, that you are increasing and maintaining your biological diversity, you are maintaining and improving water quality, you are decreasing soil erosion, you are reducing flooding for downstream recipients of water, and you are

Environment committee  I might add that it's keeping landowners on the land. It's keeping the tax base in place and it's keeping production of the lands in some status.

Environment committee  I think partly the reason they're viewed as not being protected is that in most instances and jurisdictions the surface ownership is what a typical landowner administers or controls. They do not have the mineral estate or the oil and gas estate, the subsurface rights. If those su

Environment committee  I would like to add that we should be looking at an absolute no net loss of wetland type regulation and/or policy with a mitigation sequence that requires avoid, minimize, and then mitigate the loss, fully recognizing that you are not going to be able to stop all wetland loss. Th

Environment committee  Yes, we believe very much that your wetlands represent a system. Whether you classify it as a smaller-based system or a complete watershed, they are very much interconnected, as well as the biological diversity with that. It provides the connectivity for numerous species of wildl

Environment committee  Good morning. Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, for inviting Ducks Unlimited Canada to follow up on the testimony we gave earlier this month. We are very encouraged by your interest in wetlands because we feel they must be at the very core of a national conser

Environment committee  I'm going to have to go with the number that was just given.

Environment committee  Yes, where we apply funds and the species are present, the benefits will be retained.

Environment committee  Thank you. Yes, we have found very keen interest now, particularly in the Winnipeg area, by developers to build what we would call naturalized wetlands versus retention ponds. Retention ponds mean just draining the water, letting sediment settle out, and pushing the water on th

Environment committee  I think that any science-based organization needs to be thinking about and cognizant of climate change impacts. At some point you are going to have to face the adaptation strategies that species are going to need to be sustained within a healthy and operating ecosystem. Part of t

Environment committee  Thank you. Ecosystem services are extremely important to society as a whole. As we've already discussed a little bit, when you change a landscape to a point where the ecosystem services are not provided, you have far-reaching and very significant impacts and damages that do occ

Environment committee  Yes, thank you very much. Science is really the backbone of Ducks Unlimited Canada. We believe that science is what guides your conservation strategies and it guides you in where you make conservation investments. Jonathan spoke eloquently of how we much understand about waterfo