Environment committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Let me introduce myself. I was for thirty years of my life a public servant. I retired eighteen months ago and have been on the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, first for Working Group I, which is on science, and now

Environment committee   you're seeking. I have one with me because I carry it with me everywhere. It's the first federal sustainable development strategy, tabled in 2010. This strategy focuses on four areas across the government of Canada: climate change and air quality, water quality, protecting nature

Environment committee   bit about some recent environmental assessments and concrete examples to show how those assessments have dealt with some of the issues that I think are of interest to the committee, including those related to water or water management, migratory birds, and climate change. Finally

Environment committee   in the chapter, as the honourable member said, the importance, the disproportional importance, of climate change in the north. We noted in the chapter that the north has recorded an increase of 2 degrees Celsius in the last 60 years compared to an increase of 1.2 degrees Celsius south of 60

Environment committee   on the government, for example, within 90 days of the motion that was passed in the House on climate change recently. We asked the Prime Minister to call together a first ministers meeting to deal with the issues of climate change and the crisis in energy. We haven't heard back from

Environment committee   structures and processes and policy in order to deal with a new set of emerging challenges. In particular, my work over the last few years has been concentrated around the sustainable energy policy and climate change. For instance, I'm working on an international project now on carbon

Environment committee  To go back to your question about climate change and how it's included in these types of analysis, in the fisheries model there is a provision for that with respect to looking at the current productivity rate of that stock. What you'll see from time to time

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's clear that the climate change file is a horizontal issue. Treasury Board Secretariat fully agrees with the report issued by Madame Gélinas, and we've worked on that report with Madame Gélinas through that process over the last year. I would also

Environment committee   climate change legislation, she says that it is a matter of a few weeks, not a few months. Why is it that the new American administration, which came to power after the new Canadian government came to power, is able to tell us that within a few weeks, and not a few months

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Welcome to this session of the Bill C-288 of the committee. Thank you Mr. Burton and Mr. Sauchyn for reminding us of the importance of adapting to climate change. Mr. Godfrey told us that this wasn’t the objective of the bill, but we have to admit

Environment committee  . This is what the Liberals and the New Democrats want to force on the industry, Mr. Chair. That's what this bill is part of, Mr. Chair. That's what they want to do. We need to bring all the emitters on board. There's nothing with respect to this bill, when we're talking about climate change

Environment committee   to appear in front of the committee to review Bill C-288 on the important issue of climate change. CCPA is not here to speak for the industry in general, but we will talk a little about the overall issues facing our sector, in particular, and focus on the challenges and experiences

Environment committee  Hearing that, have you ever in your departmental experience seen any quantifiable evidence produced for you that climate change has placed an endangered species at risk in Canada? If most species are being threatened by road expansion, city expansion, and urban crawl, can you

Environment committee  , because the global community, our international partners, people, the major emitters that have to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, everybody needs to be able to be given those tools to stop climate change, to fight climate change. One of those tools is carbon capture and storage

Environment committee   planning to do even more to meet their own targets. The Government of Canada has provided over $1.5 billion in new funding to the provinces and the territories to support their climate change initiatives. That's good news. I want to thank the Liberal members for supporting