Environment committee  Madam Minister, I am going to go back to climate change. You sent a letter to provincial ministers. The provincial ministers were very shocked, certainly in Quebec, to simply get a letter asking for their targets. They were flabbergasted by your approach, that you called

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Welcome all of you. Madam Minister, it's always nice to have you here. I want to keep talking about climate change. I was really pleased that you referenced and discussed climate change in your opening statement. I have a different take on the targets

Environment committee  Back to climate change. Would you be able to provide us with some of the accomplishments that have been made on climate change on the international front?

Environment committee   greenhouse gas emissions. We're also helping Canadians adapt to climate change. Since 2006 the government invested $235 million in domestic adaptation initiatives to improve the understanding of climate change and to help Canadians plan for the climate impact. Thank you.

Environment committee   Members of the Opposition to join the official delegation, from December 1 to 12, 2014, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place in Lima, Peru. The second one says: That the Committee invite the Minister of the Environment for an update on the climate change

Environment committee  On that particular file, there are two things done. Number one, there was an implementation framework for climate change adaptation planning. That was done, and my understanding is that it is to be made public very soon. I believe it's in translation now. That particular group

Environment committee   like to ask Mr. Fox a question about it. You mentioned the importance of safety in relation to water, and everyone in Canada is in agreement. You also mentioned the quite serious impact that climate change is having on the cycle of flood and drought. In that connection, I am

Environment committee   something down at some point to be able to move forward. It hopefully coincides with the February letter that the environment commissioner sent to us. There were some things she recommended that the committee undertake: climate change, sustainable development strategy, pesticides safety

Environment committee  Correct. The whole committee gets these motions when they get sent around and I don't want there to be any confusion. What the chair sent forward to us was helpful and so we've reorganized this to deal with the sustainable development as well as getting to climate change

Environment committee  Oh, the cream card. Okay, Madam Chair. The greenhouse gas provisions of part 4—correct me if I'm wrong—give the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change broad sweeping regulatory authority for advanced planning for control of greenhouse gases. Is that a correct

Environment committee  I'll try to respond briefly, but I might suggest that if there is interest on the part of the committee in enforcement, that you might want to invite the chief enforcement officer to come and explain. Very briefly, however, within Environment and Climate Change Canada, we

Environment committee  Environment and Climate Change Canada has a separate enforcement branch specifically organized to be separate from the program so as to give it as much marge de manoeuvre as possible, and it does indeed use the various tools in the way you describe. You can envisage a pyramid

Environment committee   and Climate Change Canada uses to restrict discharges into water. We enforce the prohibition, and we have regulations dealing with municipal waste water, effluents from metal mining, and effluents from pulp and paper. However, we do have two broad sets of authorities to regulate water

Environment committee   by a Senate committee in 2006 and 2007. However, no subsequent Parliamentary reviews and no comprehensive set of reforms have been made to the act since it was introduced in 1999. Environment and Climate Change Canada has two primary pollution statutes. One is the Fisheries Act, which

Environment committee   to take over the industry. I'll get back to environmental issues now, because I'm tired of infomercials, and I'll speak to GNWT. When we talk about climate change, and we talk about greening up, Dr. Gunn identified the serious problems of changing weather conditions in the fall