Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for appearing before the committee, Ms. Blais, and for sharing your knowledge and expertise with us once again.
First of all, I wanted to acknowledge the excellent work you are doing in co-operation with the CRECQ team on environmental protection and in raising awareness of its importance among people and various organizations.
I read your brief, which is very interesting, and the recommendations it contains are highly relevant. I will come back to that in a moment, but I wanted to emphasize that this brief is really well done.
I wanted to start by addressing the issue of climate change. We in the NDP believe that we must act quickly on climate change, establish specific measures, develop an overall vision and be very active on the issue. We believe the present government is not doing enough work in this area.
I see that it is very important to conserve wetlands. If I am not mistaken, you said that they contain methane and that it is therefore important to conserve peat bogs because they will otherwise release a lot of gas that will accelerate climate change. I also read in your brief that peat bogs are sometimes used for farming but that we must ensure that they are redeveloped. Can you expand on your thinking about the importance of properly conserving and restoring peat bogs?