Environment committee   or disproportionately either relieved from pressures or had pressures applied, and whether they were the same across the whole department as they were in my branch. As we went through the reductions, our focus was on maintaining the core capacity that Environment and Climate Change Canada needed

Environment committee   you take action—are becoming much more closely aligned. A good example of that is the work that's been done on what Louise referred to as “short-lived climate pollutants”, the non-carbon dioxide actors that are having a fairly significant effect on climate change, such as methane

Environment committee   investments are made in a way that represents true value for Canadians. One of the big concerns is there's this $2.65-billion announcement to spend Canadian taxpayers' dollars on foreign climate change initiatives, but very few commitments made for investments in Canada today, so I

Environment committee  Thank you very much, Madam Gelfand. We're just going to hold off on the questions until the end. I'm sure there will be many. I see people writing diligently, and I have a few myself, but we'll hold on that Now we'll get to the department of the Environment and Climate Change

Environment committee  Just Environment and Climate Change Canada want to come, and they have a 20-minute presentation to give us.

Environment committee  Why don't you let me quickly explain what we had in mind, and then you can go from there. What we had in mind is on Thursday, two days from now, we're going to have the commissioner in to give her overall mandate. She's going to have Environment and Climate Change Canada

Environment committee   their input into what this committee should study. I heard people tell me that they want the committee to look at issues relating to food consumption, climate change, and protection of federal areas such as Gatineau Park.

Environment committee  If we get into a clean tech climate change kind of discussion, and show this committee to be the place.... Depending on how important the issue is to Canadians, the environment committee cycles up and down in terms of prominence. My ambition would be for all of us to cycle it up

Environment committee  We certainly know that coming up with a national framework to address climate change is something she's working very hard on. We're very anxious to see what that will look like. I'm assuming we'll see something on March 2, when she meets with the first ministers. The earlier she

Environment committee  . The fifth goal is to enhance understanding of the Great Lakes ecosystem and adaptation. The changing climate has emerged as a significant threat to Great Lakes water quality. For example, severe weather events associated with climate change have increased runoff to the Great Lakes

Environment committee  Thank you very much for your comments on land use planning for habitat conservation. Another issue you have raised in your research is the impact of climate change on caribou populations and other populations. You have done a lot of research on that. How does climate change

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm going to take a page directly out of Mr. Leef's book and ask each of you to comment on this. Can we have a conversation about conservation and habitat protection without including the topic of climate change? How does climate change affect the work

Environment committee   birds, various traditional knowledge studies, and climate change studies, which are tracked by the Cree Trappers' Association. If you go to their website you'll see there's a portal that shows the observations that have been made by Cree trappers in climate change. They contribute

Environment committee  . Unfortunately, the response of some governments, and I'll speak to the Ontario government, is to manage hunters rather than to manage for the situation and extraneous factors. Those factors include things like climate change, as you mentioned. They also include things like clear-cutting

Environment committee  . If I've understood correctly, there has been a drop in the number of moose in recent months, and deer have had problems because of the harsh winter. We know that there will be more and more problems related to climate change, such as very long periods of cold or very hot periods. What