Environment committee   not too long ago on a water study where we talked about the fact that the microbeads issue is on the agenda for this meeting; and then of course right now, obviously, climate change and greenhouse gas reductions with the provinces are on this agenda too. We had some concerns

Environment committee  Madam Minister, I am going to go back to climate change. You sent a letter to provincial ministers. The provincial ministers were very shocked, certainly in Quebec, to simply get a letter asking for their targets. They were flabbergasted by your approach, that you called

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Welcome all of you. Madam Minister, it's always nice to have you here. I want to keep talking about climate change. I was really pleased that you referenced and discussed climate change in your opening statement. I have a different take on the targets

Environment committee  Back to climate change. Would you be able to provide us with some of the accomplishments that have been made on climate change on the international front?

Environment committee   greenhouse gas emissions. We're also helping Canadians adapt to climate change. Since 2006 the government invested $235 million in domestic adaptation initiatives to improve the understanding of climate change and to help Canadians plan for the climate impact. Thank you.

Environment committee   differently. You gave your example before about retrofitting a house, as to what's important and what's not. I can put climate change in the headline, as Mr. Godfrey said earlier, and that doesn't change anything. What changes it is if you actually give it some importance in the way you

Environment committee  The one thing I would say is that building in both the mitigation and the adaptation parts is hugely important. If there's one neglected element to the climate change story, which I think is reflected in the documents that we have before us, including the progress report from

Environment committee  It's fascinating that the role on adaptation for climate change is actually NRCan's, and yet if you read the mandate letters of the ministers and you try to figure out who's really in charge of this whole-of-government strategy, it's not at all clear that we've captured

Environment committee  It's the federal government more writ large. Our role is basically three things. We work in support of our colleagues at Environment and Climate Change Canada to help them in setting targets and goals with respect to greening government operations specifically.

Environment committee  I'll be really brief. Buildings is indeed one of the sectors that will be explicitly looked at in the federal-provincial work that's ongoing from the Vancouver declaration on climate change. There will be work reporting back to first ministers on that in October, and ministers

Environment committee  There are a couple of points. Several departments are involved with this as well. Environment and Climate Change Canada has one aspect of it through the Parks Canada Agency. Fisheries and Oceans is going to be a key player in all of this. The legislative framework currently

Environment committee   at the original draft bill from Suzuki, they didn't really talk about climate change; they only talked about CO2 as one of the substances that was listed. As political priorities and public priorities change, you need the flexibility to be able to put a greater emphasis on things. That's

Environment committee   was that the City of Montreal was obligated to participate with Environment and Climate Change Canada and the affected first nations in a comprehensive review of the circumstances that led to the cause of the release, with the intention of avoiding those circumstances in the future. That review

Environment committee   experience in reviewing previous federal strategies supports this characterization. In 2013, we recommended—it was probably Scott who did it—that Environment and Climate Change Canada should lead work aimed at integrating the social and economic dimensions of sustainable development

Environment committee  . Then I would like to suggest to the committee how they might want to use this occasion to review the act and the federal sustainable development strategy as an opportunity to support and strengthen the new government's actions on climate change. The first lesson to be learned by my