Deb Schulte at the Environment and Sustainable Development Committee

On May 3rd, 2016. See this statement in context.

May 3rd, 2016 / 11:15 a.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte

Thank you very much. I definitely wanted to be respectful of your interest in bringing it forward, but I think that's the right idea.

Let's get back to our agenda. Thanks to all of you for that.

Thanks for your patience. I welcome our panel.

We have five departments and agencies in front of us today: the Office of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, with Julie Gelfand, George Stuetz, Francine Richard, and James Reinhart; the Department of the Environment, with Sue Milburn-Hopwood and Robert McLean; the Parks Canada Agency, with Nadine Crookes and Kevin McNamee; the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, with Kevin Stringer and Jeff MacDonald; and the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, with Allan MacDonald and Susan Waters.

Thanks very much to all of you for being here today. We have a very large group of panellists willing to share a lot of very important information with us. We will get right to it.

I think Julie Gelfand is up first.

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