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Environment committee Yes. There are some sites near the Lachine Canal in particular. I believe there are two sites in the Old Port of Montreal and another one on île Bouchard, by the Island of Montreal. There are 15 class 1 sites with contaminants. That is why they are now considered contaminated sites.
May 8th, 2012Committee meeting
Scott Vaughan
Environment committee Yes. I am going to let my colleague Mr. Sloan answer your question.
May 8th, 2012Committee meeting
Scott Vaughan
Environment committee It was not.
May 8th, 2012Committee meeting
Scott Vaughan
Environment committee That's correct. There's a lag between the year and when Environment Canada compiles all the data and releases it. It would be similar to Stats Canada and the Bank of Canada. There's a lag between when it happens and when—
May 8th, 2012Committee meeting
Scott Vaughan
Environment committee I am sorry. We presented that audit before the committee in 2009. We recommended—
May 8th, 2012Committee meeting
Scott Vaughan
Environment committee Are you referring to Chapter 1 of the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act?
May 8th, 2012Committee meeting
Scott Vaughan
Environment committee For that chapter in the audit, there are no recommendations because it was the last report of our—
May 8th, 2012Committee meeting
Scott Vaughan
Environment committee In terms of contaminated sites, we made two recommendations. First of all, we asked that the government assess all the sites because, as you know, many sites are still open, 13,000 to be precise. We noted that half of them have not been assessed yet. After the assessment, there needs to be an action plan to determine the next stage in dealing with the sites that will remain open.
May 8th, 2012Committee meeting
Scott Vaughan
Environment committee Well, I can tell you that under Turning the Corner for the regulatory framework, there was an overall cost estimation of that entire approach, which represented, as you know, about 85% of the government's projected emission reductions. For Turning the Corner, the government was able to do what the whole package would cost.
May 8th, 2012Committee meeting
Scott Vaughan
Environment committee Prudent or not, as I say, that would be a policy decision. There is a regulatory process. The regulatory process is that—you're quite right—there is a RIAS and it's published. They are published once the consultations are...there's a good idea of what the regulation would look like.
May 8th, 2012Committee meeting
Scott Vaughan
Environment committee They have to be when the regulations are published. Yes, you're quite right.
May 8th, 2012Committee meeting
Scott Vaughan
Environment committee No, because by then we have cleared all the report from Environment Canada. It was the most recent data up until, say, the end of March 2012.
May 8th, 2012Committee meeting
Scott Vaughan
Environment committee Yes, with pleasure. I'm just going to say that we've been very clear that Environment Canada has done a better job consistently, year after year, in each of the annual climate change reports. The reports are more robust. They're more detailed. They're more transparent. They're more inclusive.
May 8th, 2012Committee meeting
Scott Vaughan
Environment committee Absolutely, yes.
May 8th, 2012Committee meeting
Scott Vaughan
May 8th, 2012Committee meeting
Scott Vaughan