Environment committee  Thank you very much, Chair. I appreciate the opportunity to speak to members of the committee on the upcoming international negotiations on climate change at Bali. First of all, while I'm aware that you heard from some eminent experts on the results of the IPCC's fourth

Environment committee   called “Burying Carbon Dioxide in Underground Saline Aquifers: Political Folly or Climate Change Fix?” The paper was presented at the U of T last September at a daylong symposium on carbon capture. I did not focus on Alberta’s oil sands projects because it would appear the oil sands

Environment committee   that, but I want to talk to you about science. Nowhere in this entire brief have you made a reference to climate change. I don't think you have. I followed you page by page, but there's no reference at all to climate change. Can you help Canadians understand how much science is now going

Environment committee  I'll give it my best shot, but I think I'll need to have follow-up information. I don't have statistics as they relate to Environment Canada and the proportion of our resources that is expended on climate change; that is not within my remit, if you will, but if the committee

Environment committee  We'd like to hear your recommendations. Mr. Manderson, you talked about the fact that climate change is going to have a huge impact in our cities. As we think about this urban conservation strategy, what would you suggest? As a recommendation, what would you like us

Environment committee   with the difficulty of balancing conservation and housing or industrial developments. That brings us to the question of climate change. You touched on this when you spoke about the problem of droughts and what not. How can the federal government provide tools to better reconcile the environment

Environment committee   with that. With respect to the Convention on Biological Diversity, an interesting report just came out which talks about cities and the biodiversity outlook, and that the brunt of climate change is going to be borne by cities. It spoke, for example, of coastal cities and the rise of the oceans

Environment committee  -cost or even no-cost options for a park system, when we would say the opposite is true. They have costs and need to be managed as such. We are struggling with a number of issues that are beyond our control. Climate change is one of them. Within the context of southern Alberta

Environment committee   support all the time, does this square with you? As a member of a cabinet that's approved this advertising, number one, does it square with you? Number two, can you help Canadians who are watching understand how much of this money has been spent, for example, on climate change

Environment committee   to implement one and not the others will not achieve the type of conservation that is needed as we navigate a world rife with the challenges of an aging population and climate change. The seven solutions proposed by the municipality include greenbelting, investing in downtown cores

Environment committee   been dedicated to the advancement of responsible planning throughout Canada. We address matters around professional standards, planning practice, and public policy, both domestically and globally. We undertake research on climate change and sustainability. We have about 7,000

Environment committee  I'm not sure if either of you will be able to answer this because you have very specific roles within the department, but what are the department's expected challenges to conservation efforts due to climate change? Is that something within your niche that you're able to answer?

Environment committee  Thanks, Mr. Chair. I'm almost being ruled out of order, so I'll rephrase. I'm not looking for a technical or a scientific definition; I just want to know if you believe in the existence of man-made climate change.

Environment committee   that if you were in my shoes, you'd want to know the answer as well. What causes climate change?

Environment committee  I do have a specific question about the supplementary (C) estimates. I am compelled to comment on your remarks that Canadians can be proud of this government's action on climate change, when in fact my experience on the ground and internationally is that Canadians