Finance committee  Mr. Chairman, honourable members, thank you for inviting the Green Budget Coalition to speak to you today. I am joined today by Sachi Gibson from the Pembina Institute, who can take questions as well. The Green Budget Coalition is unique in bringing together the expertise of 2

Finance committee  The numbers have changed a little bit from what we submitted to you in the longer document. We've had extensive discussions with Infrastructure Canada. There is $1 billion in money funded by this government that is still available and could be put into waste water infrastructure.

Finance committee  We are asking you to give strong directive to the government that it--

Finance committee  This is the long term. It's expected to be a 30-year effort to implement this. This is as much about the environment as it is about the human health issue.

Finance committee  Maybe if we could give them all nice warm socks--

Finance committee  Thank you very much for the question and for your kind words. You mentioned some of the many unfortunate environmentally damaging events that have been happening, such as the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. We have seen the flood of toxics in Hungary, which is just deplorable. T

Finance committee  Thank you very much for your kind words. We certainly appreciate your support for the work. We obviously put a lot of diligent effort into producing our document each year. Why are we still having those debates? If you look to Europe, you see that they're huge steps ahead of us

Finance committee  I have a sense that it would be, because about five times that is what it cost the United States. It's a pretty small-cost program.

Finance committee  I don't think more of that money would need to be spent up front. We're asking for $5 million over five years.

Finance committee  We don't have the capacity to make those kinds of estimates. I'm checking to see if we have we have that kind of information from the United States....yes, comparatively, the U.S. accomplishments report found that in a year it saved 36 billion gallons of water and saved custome

Finance committee  Let me mention, too, just to follow up, that we sent all of you a detailed package of our recommendations about a month ago, which all of you should have received, and we'll be sending a further copy in November.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman and honourable committee members, for inviting the Green Budget Coalition to speak to you today. I'm joined by our chair, Barry Turner, from Ducks Unlimited Canada. As you likely recall, the Green Budget Coalition is unique in bringing together 21 of Can

Finance committee  [Inaudible--Editor].... I'll pass this to Mr. Lindgren.

Finance committee  The Green Budget Coalition itself was not consulted. I can't speak for the individual member groups, but if these three groups were not consulted, it's unlikely that any others were.

Finance committee  Mr. Chairman, honourable committee members, thank you for inviting me to speak to you today. I'm here on behalf of the Green Budget Coalition, which as some of you know is unique in bringing together 21 of Canada's leading environmental and conservation organizations, representin