Environment committee  I'll answer that question, but if I may, I'd like to give an answer to the previous question as well. I just want to emphasize a point. It matters to us how climate change affects other parts of the world. Climate change will exacerbate the differences between the rich

Environment committee   and we're going to have to get there, but let's start. It's been a long time. Our company's first climate change project was in 1988, when we helped Swiss Reisurance in Munich reassess climate change risk. Man, I'm getting old at this, and so is John and so all of us here. Let's just go.

Environment committee   the government. I'm not talking about adapting to the impacts of climate change. I'm talking about the fact that it is very realistic to assume that the clarion call for doing something about climate change, and that we need to do it more and more urgently, will only increase because

Environment committee   Fraser brought to our attention the point that there is long-range transport of air pollutants in the north and that is a concern. Our good friend, Mr. McGuinty, brought up climate change. These are impacts in the north. So on biomonitoring, we can see trends, we can see hot spots

Environment committee  . “There are also profound changes taking place in the North as a result of climate change and...long-range transport of air pollutants”, and so on. In your audit of what you call “sustaining development” as opposed to “sustainable development” of the Northwest Territories, did you examine

Environment committee  So you didn't examine, for example, the extent of scientific investments in climate change in the Northwest Territories?

Environment committee  You didn't examine the foundation for atmospheric and climate change sciences--it's being wound up this year--for example. That wasn't examined?

Environment committee   of by Commissioner Vaughan a week ago at the public accounts committee. The Auditor General made a comment that there are also profound changes taking place in the north as a result of climate change and because of long-range transport of air pollutants. Commissioner Vaughan, I think that came

Environment committee   place in the North as a result of climate change and because of the long-range transport of air pollutants, which brings toxic and other substances to northern communities and to the environment of the Northwest Territories. We examined whether Indian and Northern affairs Canada

Environment committee   question period and our inability to receive answers to questions that are significant to Canadians from coast to coast to coast, with respect to climate change in particular, but other issues in general. At the base of this argument is a basic accountability that we

Environment committee   be any need for species at risk legislation in 50 years' time. Given global pollution and climate change, I cannot see that happening. I think we will need this legislation even more in 50 years' time, not less. I thought the initial focus of the act was primarily on biodiversity

Environment committee   in light of things like climate change is that 12% is going to be woefully inadequate. So I think as much as we can do to lay out our national parks intelligently, to have more, that's a wonderful tool. But we really need to not focus on that instead of good management of these species

Environment committee  Do you think that the bill we are working on currently should mention climate change?

Environment committee  My question is for all three of our witnesses. Have you ever thought to integrate scientific observations on climate change into the scientific models you are currently using?

Environment committee  That is COSEWIC's work. When scientists prepare their report on what is left of an endangered species, they include climate change in their study so that they can try to predict whether the species can survive.