Environment committee  . The issue of climate change and how it will have a negative influence on habitat conservation has also been raised. Would you also recommend that this committee undertake a separate study on climate change?

Environment committee  Certainly. As a review of federal lands, how they contribute to assisting with, for example, carbon sequestration and things like that, I think it should be rolled into your work. It's a big topic, so I'm not sure—climate change as a whole—but maybe parcel it out and see what

Environment committee   change, including some mitigation measures. But I think bringing up the regulatory approach around climate change and greenhouse gas emissions might be a bit of a stretch for today's scope, and I'd ask you if that's the case.

Environment committee   fide invasive species and introduce species that are not. There's another dimension to this issue that bears precisely on the topic of climate change. Since the 1960s, forest biologists have been documenting the declining health and vigour of red spruce in the United States

Environment committee  Invasive species can mean wildlife as well as plants. Certainly with climate change we are seeing a new spectrum of problem weeds in crops that we haven't necessarily had to deal with so much in the past. We're also seeing some insect issues that are unique to climate change

Environment committee  Good morning. Climate change is the single largest threat to Canada's well-being over the medium term—I'd like to state that absolutely unequivocally. It also makes this deliberation and a national conservation plan very difficult, because we have to plan for the future. It's

Environment committee   strategy to look at continental-scale connectivity. There is connectivity of protected areas. They are also looking at it under a framework of climate change, because they've had some serious impacts from climate change in Australia, with wild fires, etc., and they've recognized

Environment committee  That's fair, Mr. Louie. I have a question with regard to sewage. Has FCM done a vulnerability assessment of our infrastructure and the impacts of climate change on, for example, stormwater?

Environment committee   and Environment Solutions, Alberta Energy, and the Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation. Policies on renewable fuel standards are at the cornerstone of Enerkem's commercial growth. They have opened the marketplace for Enerkem's biofuels and created the policy certainty

Environment committee  , we don't have any sustainable development legislation, but we do have a strategy at least. You talked about the polluter-pay principle and the price of carbon. President Obama stressed the importance of a major shift when it comes to tackling climate change and adapting

Environment committee   knowledge and expertise on habitat conservation. What are the sources of this information? How is it disseminated? In seeking an answer to that question, I want to ask whether or not the department is making public the need to adapt and to mitigate climate change, specifically

Environment committee  I would probably turn to the work we're doing, both domestically and internationally, in working with the U.S. and Mexico, in using large protected areas as natural solutions for adaptation to climate change. It's a big part of our communications activities to let people know

Environment committee  Yes, very quickly, just on habitat, groups don't come to us and speak specifically about climate change. I think people working locally recognize that habitat conservation is one of the key strategies to adapt. The federal government has other programs, which I'm not familiar

Environment committee  Mr. McLean, if I understand what you are saying correctly, you have a very reduced, if not non-existent, role in the fight against climate change. The provinces and the territories are fighting climate change or working on what you call resilience. Have I understood correctly?

Environment committee  Of course, I will therefore ask a question related to habitat conservation and stakeholders. I think it is the first or second point of the study. Do those stakeholders communicate with you about climate change? You talked about the provinces, but you represent Environment