Natural Resources committee  But let's be clear. If somebody decided today that they wanted to retrofit their home, save energy, reduce their loss of energy and their greenhouse gas emissions, they couldn't start that today and rely on this program. Is that right?

Natural Resources committee  The point is, they could start today and could hire any company that's doing this kind of work, but they can't look to the retrofit program, because it's already committed and there's no money available. What's clear since March 31—what was announced, of course

Natural Resources committee  You're coming through loud and clear. We appreciate your being on the program. Perhaps for Mr. Elsey, I'll just say we'll have our presentations, and then we'll go to the committee for questions. Presentations are seven or eight minutes, and then we have a round of questions

Natural Resources committee   future energy efficiency initiatives for both new and existing homes. ERS will allow us to measure and verify home energy performance, and it will provide homebuyers with a clear and transparent tool for comparing any two homes. The next generation ERS will be far more robust

Official Languages committee   francophone immigration can be viably grafted. Actually, the picture was clear right from the start. At the time of the Laurendeau-Dunton commission, when the reality of the bilingual belt was first recognized, it has simply become clearer, with the passage of time and the accumulation

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   dozen of his Iranian subjects at the Durban II conference in Geneva. I took the opportunity to have discussions with many Iranian citizens of different ages. I engaged them in conversation about Ahmadinejad's views. It was clear that they were terrified that anything they might say

Cree-Naskapi (of Quebec) Act   to all governments—federal, provincial and Cree—a clear, equitable and logical method of achieving the essential objective of ensuring that the Cree people of northern Quebec will have genuine self-government. As a matter of fact, if it succeeds in these three important objectives

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. SMEs need to be protected at all costs so that they can at least continue to operate. We want to be very clear from the outset that we are not opposed to rationalizing services or to combining 125 cable services into one. However, we mustn't lose sight

Environment committee  I think the law should be clear, and it simply is not clear. Let's just proceed, and we can vote down the amendment.

Environment committee  . When we reviewed that, as I recall, Mr. Woodworth, did we not agree that perhaps simply adding a comma after “administrative law” might remedy that? As it reads right now, it remains confusing. I tried to come up, with the drafters, with an alternate version. To be clear

Energy Efficiency Act   is updating energy efficiency standards for companies and suppliers that had already begun updating their standards in other countries. It is important that we have a clear understanding of the government's role. The reaction by industry representatives is understandable: Industry

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The crown clearly undertook legal obligations. I'm a former police officer also, and I'm very clear in terms of what the Supreme Court of Canada has decided in regard to the duty to consult and accommodate. In fact, the indigenous peoples, having gone to the court in at least 12

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There's been a lot of discussion on third-party interests. I want to make it clear that there are now 105 parcels of land, totalling 150,000 acres, that are sitting. There are no encumbrances on this land. There are no third-party interests. Why hasn't that land moved? I think

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee   One was signed with the British crown on August 3, 1871, at the Stone Fort. Our ancestors signed the treaty with clear intentions: to preserve our way of life, to ensure our sovereignty within our reserve territories, to ensure shared benefits from all 16,700 square miles of our

Climate Change Accountability Act   can as a non-scientist. It is very clear that human activity since the industrial revolution has been adding to CO2 in the atmosphere. There are measurements of CO2 in the atmosphere. I think we are now at 385 parts per million, whereas for 10,000 years we were at 280 parts per