Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My thanks to the witnesses for joining us today.
My question is for Mr. Butler and Ms. Powley.
Of course, we have urban conservation now. It is also becoming part of the national conservation plan that we have recently studied. We are just going deeper into it. We have to see urban conservation as a whole. You said so and other witnesses have said so as well. We have to be looking out for human health, both physical and psychological. Nor must we forget the war on climate change. In that respect, research has recently been done on what are called climate change jobs, the jobs that allow the war against climate change to be fought. We talked about science and so on.
You also mentioned that we must make sure that we are close to nature and we do not have to sit in a car for an hour or two in order to get to it.
What interests me is the role of the government in all this. A lot of levels of government are involved in these areas, it must be said. The municipal and provincial levels are there, but what can the federal government do?
You suggested creating a department for this. What exactly is your idea behind that? Are there other things that the government could be doing, such as establishing stricter environmental rules and providing a place for research, for science and for innovation?