Environment committee  Thank you. Actually the target does come with a timeline on it. I'm not intimately familiar with what that is, but I'm sure one of my colleagues will inform us.

Environment committee  I'll jump in there. I think the convening capability of the federal government is very important. A couple of the speakers spoke about the species at risk advisory council, for instance, which was a council specific to the question of species at risk and was widely respected and

Environment committee  Absolutely.

Environment committee  Collaboration takes work. It's hard work and it takes time. but it's important to motivate collaboration through aspirational targets. Certainly that's part of what we've done in the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement by setting out very ambitious timelines that helped motivate our

Environment committee  Thank you for your question. The point we're trying to make is that we're taking a science-based approach and looking to the science to help us inform what the conservation outcomes should be in particular landscapes across the boreal. A focus on that science is critically impor

Environment committee  I'll make a quick response to that. Thinking about the federal wardrobe, we need to pull together to achieve these ambitious targets. One of the challenges is that the wardrobe is very diverse and siloed. We have federal departments with partial responsibility, arguably, towards

Environment committee  We didn't mean to besmirch the policy process. We're just talking about the critical importance of science to inform implementation of policy objectives.

Environment committee  Ms. Lisgo was explaining the science-based approach that we're using to analyze the status of the protected areas network across Canada's boreal and to identify potential new conservation areas. Her point was that in the CBFA, we're committed to a science-based, science-informed

Environment committee  I tend to agree with what Ms. Nowlan is saying. We need clear objectives and processes that get us towards these commitments we've made. A law is but a tool, and it needs leadership. To Mr. Stetski's point, we do need federal leadership, either to implement a new law that is pe

Environment committee  Maybe I'll lead off with a few comments and then turn to my colleagues. I'll just make a couple of quick observations. The first thing is that generally, in advancing protected areas across the country, collaboration is the key, by which I mean cross-sectoral collaboration with

Environment committee  Our presentation focused on the concept of ecological benchmarks in the design of the protected areas network, particularly for the boreal area of Canada. Their intention is to be a control, if you will, that helps us better understand how we're managing the whole landscape of th

Environment committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you, committee members. I must say that over the last two attendances at your sessions, seeing you sprinting into this room twice gives me a new appreciation for the demands on parliamentarians. Thank you for all you do. Again, my name is Aran O'C

Environment committee  Madam Chair, we'd be happy to come back.

Natural Resources committee  The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement and the commitments that the forest industry has made to that agreement will put the Canadian industry in a globally leading position in terms of its environmental reputation. It would be widely celebrated and have a broad base of support. T

Natural Resources committee  Tenure reform is a long-standing and a challenging issue in Canada. One of the clear things that the CBFA and the collaborations that are going on bring to this question is the idea of an open, transparent discussion of how we're managing the forests and engaging the communities