Environment committee   of the environmental piece without linking it to the rest, as we all understand, but we all know that the bottom line sits in our natural capital systems. That's what we're grappling with, and the biggest expression, of course, is climate change.

Environment committee  I'll open by saying that I don't really want to get into the politics of the Canadian debate. But the observation I would make first is that the environmental work of the office in Canada is superb. For instance, the assessment of your nation's action on climate change in 2006

Environment committee   to act on a more urgent basis--for example, on things like climate change?

Environment committee  Maybe I should make my point more explicitly. Take the issue of climate change. The government says we promise to reduce by 100,000. It releases a plan that's laid out over a number of months, and it has a number of different components, without anyone really watching all

Environment committee  I will agree on your first condition. I'll disagree with you on your second, because when it comes to climate change, the whole point has been the planning. Ineffective plans have led to the results we have right now. I don't say this for partisan reasons. I'm looking

Environment committee  . I think there's a call for that. When you have governments making proposals, promises, commitments, and then presenting a plan that doesn't meet the commitment over something such as climate change, as an example, is it incumbent upon somebody auditing that government to make

Environment committee   part of the response the government made in response to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, when as a country we signed on to the Rio Declaration and to a forestry statement and declaration and of course to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. In 1993, the Liberal

Environment committee   refused outright by departments, or ignored, or delayed over time. We have to take a look at the climate change file in particular. I can remember—and I have the reports here—recommendations, and then recommendations, and things getting continually worse. One of the concerns you

Environment committee  . On climate change, government has an international obligation, and we are perfectly entitled to ask if government is respecting that obligation—

Environment committee  ' last report she commented on, saying on climate change that the government had not taken it seriously enough yet and needed to ramp it up? Where is that line?

Environment committee  The only thing that I would like to clarify, as I said in my opening statement, is that there seems to be, certainly in certain quarters, people trying to attribute this to the audit report that was produced in the fall of 2006 on climate change. This situation has absolutely

Environment committee   and air pollutants and would be able to do so probably more quickly than doing this through Bill C-30; that they'd be a step forward in the federal government working more effectively in partnership mode with the provinces, and I think that's important in all areas, not just climate

Environment committee  As you know, there are a number of different dialogues that are happening around the world. Canada participates with the G-8. Our chair went to that meeting, the Gleneagles dialogue on climate change. There's also the Asia-Pacific Partnership. One of the interesting things about

Environment committee  So why cut more than $1 billion in climate change funding for programs that were acting in Canada, if your stated goal is to achieve reductions? The first move you did was to cut more than 22 programs.

Environment committee  As you know, in our budget we put $2 billion towards the development of climate change—programming and regulations—and as you can well imagine, all of that money will be used, and it will actually be more money than has ever been spent before on this important environmental