Natural Resources Committee on June 7th, 2018

Evidence of meeting #102 for Natural Resources in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was information.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Current state and future of national energy data

Committee Business

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Ethan Zindler Head of Americas, Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Maike Luiken President, IEEE Canada

Zoran Stojanovic Director, Information Systems, London Hydro, IEEE Canada

Greg Peterson Director General, Agriculture, Energy, Environment and Transportation Statistics, Statistics Canada

Jacqueline Gonçalves Director General, Science and Risk Assessment, Department of the Environment

René Beaudoin Assistant Director, Environment, Energy and Transportation Statistics Division, Statistics Canada

Dominique Blain Director, Pollutant Inventories and Reporting, Department of the Environment

Derek Hermanutz Director General, Economic Analysis Directorate, Strategic Policy Branch, Department of the Environment

10:25 a.m.

Director General, Economic Analysis Directorate, Strategic Policy Branch, Department of the Environment

Derek Hermanutz

Sorry?

10:25 a.m.

Conservative

Jamie Schmale Conservative Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, ON

How can Environment Canada say one thing and...? The UN says we're going to miss our targets, but you're saying we're on target.

I'm just curious how—

10:25 a.m.

Director General, Economic Analysis Directorate, Strategic Policy Branch, Department of the Environment

Derek Hermanutz

I'm not familiar with the $200 number. I don't think that came from our department.

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Conservative

Jamie Schmale Conservative Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, ON

I believe it was Environment Canada, if memory serves.

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Director General, Economic Analysis Directorate, Strategic Policy Branch, Department of the Environment

Derek Hermanutz

I'd have to follow up on that. That's not in a published document that we have.

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Conservative

Jamie Schmale Conservative Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, ON

Okay.

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Director General, Economic Analysis Directorate, Strategic Policy Branch, Department of the Environment

Derek Hermanutz

Estimates that other parties do are out there. That's not underlying our projections of how we're going to meet the Paris target.

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Conservative

Jamie Schmale Conservative Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, ON

I'll have to show you that report.

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Director General, Economic Analysis Directorate, Strategic Policy Branch, Department of the Environment

Derek Hermanutz

Okay.

10:25 a.m.

Conservative

Jamie Schmale Conservative Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, ON

I don't have it here.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal James Maloney

We have to stop there.

Thank you very much, all of you, for joining us today. Sorry for the short time frame.

The meeting is adjourned.