Environment committee  Of course, food security is a priority. With climate change, we risk receiving fewer imports from countries that also have problems. This can be managed in all sorts of ways, including trade. At the moment, for example, we could put more emphasis on our local producers to help

Environment committee   have the funding to do it and that we are growing high-value crops used around the world. In terms of climate change impacts on other agricultural regions, interest in what western Canada and Canada as a whole can grow will increase over time. That would be to the benefit

Environment committee   strips or windbreaks. We also do a lot of prairie reserves, that is to say pastures and hayfields. These are very rich environments for biodiversity and very important for water and climate change. These soils are very rich. We explain the value of all this to producers, and we give

Environment committee  Thank you very much. I thank all the witnesses for being here. Ms. Maezo, we know that agriculture and climate change are directly linked to water. California, for example, will no longer be able to supply North America with fruit and vegetables. Water availability is very

Environment committee  Colleagues, we're back in business here. We have with us Dr. John Pomeroy, distinguished professor and Canada research chair in water resources and climate change. We also have, from the B.C. Watershed Security Coalition, Coree Tull, co-chair, and from the Canadian Nuclear

Environment committee   existing money and add some new money into the system. Part of the motivation here is that we're dealing with a bit of a crisis right now with climate change and everything we're seeing with wildfires, floods, and [Inaudible—Editor]

Environment committee  Thanks for the question. In terms of aquatic invasive species, what we've seen historically is that with our colder climate, we've been able to keep various species at bay. Their climactic tolerances haven't been able to withstand our colder temperatures. With climate change

Environment committee   community resilience in response to climate change impacts. They are only two programs amongst many that are happening across the watershed and throughout B.C. that are working at preventive measures here. Thank you.

Environment committee   the country. Environment and Climate Change Canada estimates that 16 invasive species cost us anywhere between $13 billion to $39 billion annually. That's a huge number of taxpayers' dollars, and it's felt across the board in terms of management, response, impacts to property values

Environment committee   is more territorially localized, could help counteract some of the effects of climate change. It’s vital that we accept that we’re part of a cycle. In Canada, the word “systemic” has often been used for many things in recent years, but from an environmental point of view, we don’t

Environment committee  I'd maybe add a little bit. In terms of resilience and adaptation, the project is very helpful, because research has been done in terms of what we can expect in climate change scenarios with precipitation. What they're saying is that the volumes should remain steady or perhaps

Environment committee   of the hydrological cycle. We saw how many decades it took for the issue of climate change to be taken seriously. If it takes as long for the water issue to be taken seriously, we’re in for some nasty surprises.

Environment committee   going to be related to things like climate change and emergent disease. I go back to the COVID issue. COVID proved to me that Canada could have solved the first nations' drinking water crises, because billions of dollars got pushed, laws changed, bureaucracies at every level

Environment committee   involve transportation, agriculture, fish habitat restoration, addressing historical inequities with first nations, on-the-ground implementation of UNDRIP and so on. This work touches many federal departments—Environment and Climate Change Canada, Infrastructure, Fisheries, Public

Environment committee   will multiply in the context of climate change and energy transition. The observatory's recommendations are in line with the objective of the mandate given to the Canada Water Agency. The innovative governance model we propose will enable Canada to shine internationally through