Environment committee  It is safe to say that of the many things lacking in Canada's response to climate change, consultations wouldn't necessarily be one of them.

Environment committee   detailed analysis on climate change science and what it tells us as far as the reductions which should be achieved by 2020 and 2050 are concerned. We recommend, for 2020, a 25% reduction compare to 1990 levels, and 2050, a 80% reduction, still compare to 1990 levels. Other governments

Environment committee  . It comes back to the comments made by Mr. Bigras around the issue of adaptation. This country will be hit hard by climate change, and it will hurt our economy. We can only protect Canada if we secure reductions from all countries in the world. That's why we have to show that we

Environment committee  Have you made a comment on Bill C-30, the government's bill to deal with climate change, which would set targets to be announced in the spring of 2007? Would you have a position on that?

Environment committee  , the mining sector right now, huge, huge parts of our Canadian economy that are telling us at this committee, and other places in this Parliament, that climate change is affecting their bottom lines in a negative way, substantially so. I guess my question to you is, is it possible to grow

Environment committee   since 1997, and we have been talking about climate change since then. We were told that it was not feasible in the short term, and you're saying that it still will not be feasible by 2012, and that we must have short-, medium- and long-term measures. Do you think

Environment committee   at the percentage changes, both since we started tracking in 1992 and more recently last year, I'm sure you'll agree our performance is good. Similarly, I've talked about our climate change performance before this committee in the past and I think it's also good. There's more detail provided

Environment committee  Mr. Myers, how critical do you see the issue of climate change being, reflecting on reports by Mr. Stern and others and the comment Mr. Drexhage made about Kyoto being more predominantly an economic or financial agreement than an environmental one? How critical is this issue

Environment committee  Let me understand, first of all, how difficult those rules are to come by. Do we have case examples of what's required for the government to set up? Secondly, how important is it that the government actually has a climate change Kyoto plan--as an example, a large final emitters

Environment committee   in Canada would have to compete for that international investment. But it's a useful mechanism, and clearly, one of the weaknesses of our approach to climate change is that we have not had a very clearly defined registry or a very clearly defined market. Our organization has been

Environment committee   if, in your opinion, the Montreal Exchange has a good chance of being named the official exchange of Canada with respect to climate change. Could you tell us how this would be an advantage for the Exchange and what factors are in its favour?

Environment committee   on climate change and emission reduction. I think those are important. Frankly, every country can't be buying emission credits from around the world, because that's just saying it's not our responsibility. At some point you have to focus on domestic emission reduction, and we need

Environment committee   not be a risk identified for large industry then becomes redistributed to other participants in Canada, other stakeholders in Canada. We're all going to pay for climate change and a price cap simply limits the risk to one group of stakeholders. There are alternatives to pricing caps

Environment committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and good morning. Bonjour à tous. I'm accompanied today by Nancy Coulas, who is our director of national environmental quality policy. Nancy and I have both worked on climate change issues for well over ten years, and it may be a reflection

Environment committee  Thank you. Next we have Mr. John Drexhage, director, climate change and energy.