Environment committee  That's right. I have more here. There is a good dose of science and policy in here. It's a microcosm of climate change as a much bigger issue. We have used science and the convention protocol process marvellously well; we have used caps and targets and so on in the process

Environment committee  Yes. The distinction I need to always make, and this was even in the national climate change process, is that people confuse actions--the things individuals and businesses do to reduce greenhouse gases--with policies. The policies need to be immediate--there are some delays

Environment committee   within the framework and the intentions of...? Kyoto is unique in its perspective in holding out real numbers. It wasn't an intention to do something about climate change; here are the numbers Canada signed on to and agreed to. With this bill as is and the comments we've heard so far

Environment committee   to capture emissions. I wrote a book in which I looked at the opinions of the experts from World Energy Assessment, the International Energy Agency and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. All those organizations and their experts agreed that, yes, we could do a lot with nuclear

Environment committee  One estimate is that there are 5,900 premature deaths across Canada due to heat waves and smog episodes. It's the combination of smog-producing chemicals and climate change that makes them much more effective in causing health problems. That's getting gradually worse. I'm

Environment committee  It's in the study that's coming out on Monday next week. It's based on the studies you referred to, done for the International Joint Commission on Ouranos and the studies that were done on the impact of climate change on Great Lakes water quality. They also estimated

Environment committee  -term targets, we need long-term goals, and we need to start tomorrow on that. I think all of the panellists here are agreed about the urgency. Our company is committed to regulation. Our company is committed to the science that is behind climate change.

Environment committee   around climate change by the end of the Kyoto commitment period. We need to have emissions trading systems, updated building codes, and energy efficiency standards. We need to have the entire architecture, technology drivers, in place. Aside from the reductions, we should have

Environment committee  The problem with territorial division is simply related to the fact that Canada is responsible under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The provinces have no responsibility or duty in actual fact. As a result, energy management by province is not the best way

Environment committee  The science of climate change works and should be trusted.

Environment committee  Having regard to the demographic increase — we know that the world population is several times more than what it was in 1900 — and to technological means, vehicles and our habits and so on, and if we consider that there was already a climate change 100 years ago, to what extent

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Rutherford, sometimes we hear certain people say that it's hard to predict the weather for tomorrow or next week; how then can we predict the impact of climate change in 20 or 30 years? What do you have to say on that subject?

Environment committee  I'll just add a question to that. In the government's recent climate change plans, how heavily involved was the insurance industry in guiding some of the principles set out in that plan?

Environment committee  , as dour as industry painted it to be, was not actually what is needed. There's something quite a bit more. Is there not some effort to re-establish Canada's battered image with respect to climate change?

Environment committee   of the country to countries that have less environmental performance. On the last point, Mr. Bigras, you've seen these numbers. I know you have the same arguments for Quebec. We haven't received one single bit of credit for this since the climate change discussions started, so I don't