Environment committee   responsible actions across a range of issues, from climate change, to air and water quality, to the conservation of ecosystems, and to protecting Canadians from harmful chemicals. The department delivers important services to Canadians 24 hours a day, every day. On average, the department

Environment committee   a species is actually bombarded with, some habitat loss, combined with climate change, combined with an invasive species that comes in, combined with some different land use strategies that affect it, it all adds up to something you never would have predicted in the beginning. Science

Environment committee   decision regarding habitat or climate change that we engage everyone in the conversation. Science drives the decision ultimately, but in order to have our stakeholders, our communities buy into any change and buy into the policy that is developed, we have to engage them and ask

Environment committee  I think the issue of climate change is inextricably intertwined with hunting, trapping, fishing, and certainly environmental policy and overall land management. We have seen more incidents of severe weather right across the country—

Environment committee   flooding twice over the last decade. It is really having an impact on our ability; it's forcing us to rethink how we build and implement programs and projects on the land. There are many unanswered questions about the impacts climate change is having on the boreal and what the impacts

Environment committee   notions about historical resource management. Natural resource management is more complicated now. There are more wicked problems, such as invasive species, climate change, mega-development of resource industries, etc., and obviously, there are more people, but having worked in natural

Environment committee  Mr. Chair, can I just ask this? Mr. Farrant mentioned that the scientists they have may be able to elaborate a little more on the climate change impact and maybe have some recommendations. If he's able to ask his scientists if they could maybe table any recommendations and any

Environment committee   know that in certain areas it's also the moose population that's being affected. You talked about a science base when designing policy. I'm just wondering what your recommendations are, based on the changes you've seen in the environment related to climate change. What kind

Environment committee   the participants live and work in urban centres, and these activities cannot be dismissed out of hand as rural issues. For some, a study of trapping and hunting may not have the same cachet as a discussion on climate change or on carbon taxes, although both of those issues are also of clear

Environment committee  Climate change is a very complex issue to get into. I have members who would say we're not affecting the climate. Personally I believe that we as humans are a cause of it. What can we do? We could try to minimize our impact in the sense of making better choices. A lot of my

Environment committee  We will definitely see some changes. We already see changes with migrations of species to other areas of the province. We've had a lot of flooding in our province lately, and we've seen some very fast increases of rivers. So on climate change, it's warm. We get flooding

Environment committee   in this area. Finally, the impacts of climate change represent one of the greatest challenges facing water quality in the Great Lakes Basin going forward. Extreme weather events and rising water temperatures in particular are a growing concern and have the potential to change the flora

Environment committee   effects of the various inputs into the lake, including, of course, the question of climate change and all that circles around climate change.

Environment committee   by climate change for sure, and require the leadership and guidance of the United States and Canadian governments and collaboration by all sectors of society. The IJC believes this teamwork will occur, as citizens and governments care deeply about this lake. Through such cooperation

Environment committee   guess it was online—about the George River caribou herd which is in decline. What was really important about the way that scientists were talking about this herd being in decline is they said that it was factors like strain on the habitat and climate change that were an issue