Environment committee   this would have on the Canadian economy and on the environmental process. Our government's proposed legislation is simply a much better approach to Canada's making its contribution to addressing climate change in the short, medium, and long terms. Our plan will achieve concrete results

Environment committee  Could we get started, please. Just for the record, pursuant to the order of reference of Wednesday, October 4, 2006, Bill C-288, An Act to ensure Canada meets its global climate change obligations under the Kyoto Protocol is the item for debate today. Pursuant to Standing

Environment committee  CO2 is a greenhouse gas that can remain in the atmosphere for several decades. So, the climate change we are witnessing today is the result of the greenhouse gas emissions produced several decades ago. I want to repeat that I am not a scientist. On the other hand, I can tell

Environment committee  , and it's good research. I go back to my beginning. I have worked on climate change since 1989. I am old, and I am Canada's oldest, longest-standing advocate of market measures. We'll send another piece, which is the suite of measures we recommend. I'm arguing that this graph tells you

Environment committee  You are comparing apples and oranges. An expenditure of $6.3 billion was announced to address climate change, but over a longer period ending in 2012. The $1.6 billion amount I referred to is money that had in fact been expended by the end of fiscal year 2003-2004. You cannot

Environment committee  There are different parts of the global carbon market. The EU emissions trading system is one part. I believe that Aldyen Donnelly, in her initial remarks, was referring to the so-called “hot air” credits that in theory are available to be traded under Kyoto. I might have time

Environment committee   to the notion of intensity reductions. If climate change is a serious consideration and there are some, at least, in your industry willing to internalize the costs, why is there a reluctance about a hard cap concerning something we see as a threat both environmentally and, in the Stern

Environment committee   for not having clarity of purpose, when we can't account for what it is we wish to do and who is actually running the show. Just to clarify, Madame Gélinas, I'm trying first to understand, under previous regimes how much money was announced, versus actually spent, for climate change

Environment committee  To our knowledge, nothing has ever replaced the Climate Change Secretariat.

Environment committee   recognized the importance and the threat of climate change. I don't want to make that assumption, but is that fair to say?

Environment committee  Mr. Chairman, it's important to make a distinction between two different things. We often talk about an action plan on climate change that the government is currently developing, but there is also what is called the machinery of government, which has nothing to do with that plan

Environment committee  Mr. Guilbeault, coming from Alberta, I know they've had a climate change plan in place for at least three to four years. You indicated that only Quebec had one.

Environment committee  , in response to Ms. Donnelly and Mr. Alvarez, but I'd like to begin with the commissioner. I very much appreciated your presentation. In a sense, I think we had this conversation when you initially released your report for 2006 on climate change. If I may return to Bill C-288, the whole

Environment committee   association representing about 150 companies and 98% of the production here in Canada from the east coast to the north. I am the president of the association, and with me today is Rick Hyndman, senior policy adviser, who has been involved in this climate change file since the beginning

Environment committee   time, we've been able to liberate ourselves from our fossil fuel hunger and find a renewable fuel. This has also addressed air quality considerations. They really do go hand-in-glove. The single largest contributing factor to air quality, climate change, and greenhouse gases