Environment committee   principal. Thank you for joining us. From Environment and Climate Change Canada we have Dan McDougall, assistant deputy minister, strategic policy branch, and Paula Brand, director general, sustainability directorate, strategic policy branch as well. Thank you very much for joining us

Environment committee  On that particular file, there are two things done. Number one, there was an implementation framework for climate change adaptation planning. That was done, and my understanding is that it is to be made public very soon. I believe it's in translation now. That particular group

Environment committee   like to ask Mr. Fox a question about it. You mentioned the importance of safety in relation to water, and everyone in Canada is in agreement. You also mentioned the quite serious impact that climate change is having on the cycle of flood and drought. In that connection, I am

Environment committee   something down at some point to be able to move forward. It hopefully coincides with the February letter that the environment commissioner sent to us. There were some things she recommended that the committee undertake: climate change, sustainable development strategy, pesticides safety

Environment committee  Correct. The whole committee gets these motions when they get sent around and I don't want there to be any confusion. What the chair sent forward to us was helpful and so we've reorganized this to deal with the sustainable development as well as getting to climate change

Environment committee  Oh, the cream card. Okay, Madam Chair. The greenhouse gas provisions of part 4—correct me if I'm wrong—give the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change broad sweeping regulatory authority for advanced planning for control of greenhouse gases. Is that a correct

Environment committee  I'll try to respond briefly, but I might suggest that if there is interest on the part of the committee in enforcement, that you might want to invite the chief enforcement officer to come and explain. Very briefly, however, within Environment and Climate Change Canada, we

Environment committee  Environment and Climate Change Canada has a separate enforcement branch specifically organized to be separate from the program so as to give it as much marge de manoeuvre as possible, and it does indeed use the various tools in the way you describe. You can envisage a pyramid

Environment committee   and Climate Change Canada uses to restrict discharges into water. We enforce the prohibition, and we have regulations dealing with municipal waste water, effluents from metal mining, and effluents from pulp and paper. However, we do have two broad sets of authorities to regulate water

Environment committee   by a Senate committee in 2006 and 2007. However, no subsequent Parliamentary reviews and no comprehensive set of reforms have been made to the act since it was introduced in 1999. Environment and Climate Change Canada has two primary pollution statutes. One is the Fisheries Act, which

Environment committee  Actually, that's the next question I was going to ask you. I know that you just accepted the position. It was in July, right? So that's not much time,but since you already have a lot of experience in international climate change negotiations, I am sure you are already aware

Environment committee   to take over the industry. I'll get back to environmental issues now, because I'm tired of infomercials, and I'll speak to GNWT. When we talk about climate change, and we talk about greening up, Dr. Gunn identified the serious problems of changing weather conditions in the fall

Environment committee  As we've mentioned, the climate change we're experiencing right now, with an amount of moisture that we haven't had for a number of years, is such that, as we quite often comment in our field, when it's raining, we're considering building arks, and it's helping ducks and fish

Environment committee  No, climate change is the fourth.

Environment committee  Well, climate change, clean tech, and innovation, yes.