Environment committee  Okay. My other question deals with pages 26 and 27 of Chapter 1 of your report. They deal with emissions trading. From what I understand, you do not consider this system a panacea, but instead an interesting climate change mitigation policy tool. Moreover, I am very happy

Environment committee  I don't know. The only thing I can say at this stage is that it will be interesting to get answers from the departments. On the basis of what we have seen on the climate change file, many times decisions were made without sound analyses and good analyses. So in this case

Environment committee   to what you were proposing. Would it be useful if every year the Minister of the Environment had to come up with a climate change plan that would report, as you have asked, on such things as what measures have been taken to meet our obligations under Kyoto concerning emission limits

Environment committee  That's great to hear, because tomorrow night we're going to be voting on such an idea, Bill C-288, proposed by my friend, Pablo Rodriguez, to ensure we meet our global climate change obligations under Kyoto. If the bill passes, we'll be debating it here, but it's good to hear

Environment committee   in the near future, so we have to look long term, and climate change is a long-term issue. But short term, in our mind, was really dealing with the Kyoto commitment.

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My name is Mark Winfield. I'm the director of the Pembina Institute's environmental governance program. With me today is Dr. Matthew Bramley, the director of our climate change program. The definition of toxic substances under the Canadian Environmental

Environment committee  Mr. Chairman, I agree with my colleague. I think that in this particular instance, the Committee should focus more, and with more rigour than in the past, on the Estimates. For political reasons, as you may recall, Mr. Flaherty's last budget set aside some $2 billion for climate

Environment committee   it with climate change. The cause and effect relationships in toxicology are much more complicated and the issues are much more individual, and therefore the manufacture of doubt is a much more lucrative industry and much easier to pursue. I want to give an example of the kinds of things we

Environment committee  The salient point is that the Government of Canada does not have the authority to dismiss ministers; the Prime Minister has that authority. That's the fundamental reason why this is out of order and also why I believe it's political mischief. The member did say that climate

Environment committee  On your first question, I did address that a bit while you were out, but briefly, we think that cooperation with the provinces is going to become more and more important on issues like climate change and clean air. We'll need to make sure there are provisions in the equivalency

Environment committee   on. I'm looking at your brief, Mr. Lloyd, and you provided seven points here. The first deals with the management of climate change. Then you dealt with the term “toxic” and the stigma it carries, the requirement to establish so-called “limits of quantification”, state

Environment committee   into working with the provinces as we deal with climate change and/or clean air, if that's done under this legislation, the problems in the equivalency provisions in the legislation will start to cause great restrictions. The kind of thing that Justyna was talking about will really start

Environment committee  I think I tried to be very specific in the brief we sent on the very few issues that we see are essential to fix in a focused review. I'll very briefly summarize. On the stigma issue, take the word “toxic” out of the act. On the climate change issue, do not regulate greenhouse

Environment committee   the whole issue of climate change, and so on. I would ask you to give consideration to attending those meetings, and we'll see that the members who aren't here get those invitations as well. Anyway, I'd like to welcome our guests. For your benefit, if you didn't know exactly where we

Environment committee   of CEPA, to manage climate change. In our view, other parts of CEPA could be used outside of part 5, such as the international air pollution provisions, or possibly the clean air initiative announced by the new government. We see greenhouse gases as a staple of life, and we just