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Environment committee   Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development in 2007, 2008 and 2009. You were even Canada's chief negotiator and ambassador for climate change for the negotiations leading up to the Copenhagen climate conference. Could you tell us about your experience that will help you

November 5th, 2014Committee meeting

François ChoquetteNDP

Environment committee  Absolutely. You've heard from a number of different witnesses who've talked about climate change and the impacts it will have on the Great Lakes. There are some really basic things. You're going to have warmer waters and more intense rainfall events, and both are going to lead

April 8th, 2014Committee meeting

Nancy Goucher

Environment committee  Of course, there's a role the federal government can play. We all need to be acting to reduce whatever impacts we can, whatever is contributing to climate change, obviously. Reducing greenhouse gas, that's a given, and being able to figure out how we can adjust to this in some

April 1st, 2014Committee meeting

Mary Muter

Environment committee  Mr. Chairman, the minister did in New York announce her intention to issue a notice of intent to regulate in the area of HFCs. That is important, in a sense, because of the relationship between the two environmental issues of climate change, on the one hand, and ozone depletion

October 8th, 2014Committee meeting

Mike Beale

Environment committee  But don't you think that a regulation should have an environmental result? Again, your words are “to fight climate change”. I'm asking you what a successful fight against climate change would look like. What will we end up with? A reduction in CO2 is not a result, it is a means

October 8th, 2014Committee meeting

Robert SopuckConservative

Environment committee  Okay. In your recommendation to consider the changing environmental conditions, is it safe to assume that those implicitly include ice levels that are changing because of climate change and the impacts of that climate change? Do the environmental conditions include those?

October 8th, 2014Committee meeting

Megan LeslieNDP

Environment committee   the federal government not doing enough to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and “fight climate change”. In Canada what would a successful fight against climate change look like?

October 8th, 2014Committee meeting

Robert SopuckConservative

Environment committee   say your audit around marine navigation did not in any way touch on climate change and the impact climate change would have. I don't think that was part of the mandate of your audit.

October 8th, 2014Committee meeting

Megan LeslieNDP

Environment committee   the interaction between human activities and the ecosystem of the Great Lakes basin, and how this is being further complicated by climate change, invasive species, and other factors. The ministry's best practices verification and demonstration program endeavours to examine some

March 4th, 2014Committee meeting

Jim Richardson

Environment committee  Thank you. Mr. Ulrich, you talked in general terms about climate change and its impact. The flooding in Thunder Bay, among other things, was mentioned. I am convinced that climate change is putting pressure on Hamilton and Toronto to adapt their infrastructure as well. You

February 27th, 2014Committee meeting

François ChoquetteNDP

Environment committee  Right. I have another question in terms of the impact of climate change. We understand that water levels are up and down, but generally the trend is down, which will affect shipping and so on. I understand that climate change leads to more extreme weather events, which leads

February 25th, 2014Committee meeting

Francis ScarpaleggiaLiberal

Environment committee  I have another question for you, Mr. Walker. You talked about green infrastructure and said that it would be important to improve our infrastructure to better adapt to climate change and the difficult times we will have to go through. Even the deputy ministers

February 25th, 2014Committee meeting

François ChoquetteNDP

Environment committee  As you know, last year in the budget we committed just under $150 million specifically to climate change adaptation, and that's spread across departments. I don't want to read too many lists today, but in this $150 million allotted over five years, for example, $30 million goes

June 4th, 2013Committee meeting

Peter KentConservative

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thanks very much to our witnesses for being here with us today. For some of you, it is a pleasure to see you again. My question will be more about the fight against climate change. You spoke about it briefly, of course, and I think that, with regard

May 2nd, 2013Committee meeting

François ChoquetteNDP

Environment committee  If Mr. Hamilton had been engaged as a climate change scientist, then I suppose his knowledge of what causes climate change might be relevant, but it's not for Mr. Hamilton to craft policy for the government on climate change. It's for Mr. Hamilton to have the administrative

October 15th, 2012Committee meeting

Stephen WoodworthConservative