Refine by MP, party, committee, province, or result type.

Results 1-15 of 3258
Sorted by relevance | Sort by date: newest first / oldest first

Environment committee   pollution will be influenced by climatic change. We currently lack an understanding of how the sources of pollutants, their transport and their fate in fresh waters will be impacted by climatic change. However, the current prediction is that climatic change will exacerbate freshwater

November 23rd, 2023Committee meeting

Dr. Julian Aherne

Environment committee  , climate change, burgeoning energy production, intensification of agriculture and contamination. This report provides a useful blueprint for the management of Canada's groundwater resources, and I urge the committee to prioritize groundwater issues. Regarding surface water quality

November 21st, 2023Committee meeting

Robert Sopuck

Environment committee   a whole bunch of really good value-added stuff. It's also going to help mitigate the effects of climate change. A bunch of the infrastructure we've invested in around beaver dam analogues, riparian area habitat restoration and wetland restoration is just generally good stuff

November 21st, 2023Committee meeting

Jesse Zeman

Environment committee   to the prosperity, sustainability and resilience of British Columbian communities, and given the increasingly severe impacts of climate change, including drought, wildfires and floods, the committee urge the federal government to work with the Government of British Columbia to establish a $1

November 23rd, 2023Committee meeting

Taylor BachrachNDP

Environment committee   of contaminants of concern in, for example, Annex 3 of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. The second is to invest in research to better understand the fate, behaviour and toxicity of emerging contaminants to support informed regulations. The third recommendation is to consider climate

November 23rd, 2023Committee meeting

Jérôme Marty

Environment committee   critical to responding to this changing dynamic of water and climate change. We need to do more. We need to invest more. We need to recognize that our models and our knowledge around how water is changing are also changing, and we're not doing enough. We called for a mission-driven

November 23rd, 2023Committee meeting

Tyler McCann

Environment committee   and clear. As you pointed out, they're on the ground, and they understand the significance of climate change and water issues. I want to talk about recommendation 6.2, which calls for the launch of an expert panel. I also liked Mr. Mazier's question about the possibility

November 23rd, 2023Committee meeting

Sophie ChatelLiberal

Environment committee   by water quality and quantity. While Canadians often consider water to be an abundant natural resource, around the world there are pressures, including increasing demand and climate change, that are turning water into a scarce resource and reinforcing how precarious agriculture's

November 23rd, 2023Committee meeting

Tyler McCann

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Sopuck. I'm switching gears again a bit, and I'll ask you to answer in about a minute, if you can. You mentioned the work that Duff Roblin did in Manitoba. You seemed to indicate you favour that adaption and mitigation approach to tackling climate change

November 21st, 2023Committee meeting

Branden LeslieConservative

Environment committee  , is critically important. That's why I talked about natural infrastructure. In terms of hard infrastructure, what Duff Roblin did.... We didn't call it climate change back then, but the miracle of the Winnipeg floodway and the associated flood control works have saved Winnipeg many times

November 21st, 2023Committee meeting

Robert Sopuck

Environment committee   you some examples of where that's happening in British Columbia. The second thing is that the actual impacts around water are being seen much more intensely, certainly driven by climate change in the last four or five years. My second point is that the federal government has a lot

November 21st, 2023Committee meeting

Deborah Curran

Environment committee   and mobilizing the knowledge and tools, both western and indigenous, needed to understand, predict and respond to water challenges and opportunities, particularly against the backdrop of climate change. This includes enhanced funding to amplify existing data collection and dedicated support

November 21st, 2023Committee meeting

Andrew Stegemann

Environment committee   the increasingly severe impacts of climate change including drought, wildfires, and floods, the committee urge the federal government to match the Government of British Columbia’s to establish a $1 billion watershed security fund.” I'll provide the written version to the clerk in both official

November 21st, 2023Committee meeting

Taylor BachrachNDP

Environment committee  Mr. Chair, I move the following motion: That, pursuant to the Order of Reference of Thursday November 9th, 2023, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, appear before the Committee for no fewer than 2 hours to consider the Supplementary Estimates (B) before Friday

November 21st, 2023Committee meeting

Dan MazierConservative

Environment committee  We are discussing Mr. Mazier's motion, which is: That, pursuant to the Order of Reference of Thursday November 9th, 2023, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, appear before the Committee for no fewer than 2 hours to consider the Supplementary Estimates (B) before

November 21st, 2023Committee meeting

The ChairLiberal