Environment committee   and Climate Change, who is the minister responsible for Parks Canada, and the Government of Canada, therefore, on the commemoration of places, persons, and events of national historic significance. It has done this since 1919, when it was founded by an order in council. I also

Environment committee  I don't think we have this information right now. We are currently conducting some kind of an assessment, trying to understand the impact of climate change on the conservation of our cultural resources. We are just in the early days of doing that, so I wouldn't have a percentage

Environment committee   the minister responsible for Parks Canada, who is the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, with responsibility for national historic sites, historic canals, heritage railway stations, heritage lighthouses, federal heritage buildings, historic places in Canada—hence the register

Environment committee   anxieties are our preoccupation. These include globalization, climate change, terrorism, and things like that. To be a healthy society, we need to embrace our past. Today, we have a chance to move Canada steps closer to what has already occurred in most G20 countries, namely, to support

Environment committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. On behalf of ICOMOS Canada, I would like to thank the committee for initiating this important study. We believe it is timely to address this subject, because it is about protecting a human right, addressing the challenges of climate change

Environment committee  Perhaps it comes back to Christophe again. You mentioned climate change and its impact on heritage. Would you like to expand on that a bit for us?

Environment committee   stay or not; that is, can they play an active role in fighting and addressing the challenges of climate change. We shouldn't presume that what exists doesn't perform. We should look at how it performs and whether it meets the goals of our communities.

Environment committee   it has value, but because of its ability to perform to achieve our goals towards sustainable development and the impacts of climate change.

Environment committee   why this is important. I want to remind you that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is the global authority on climate change, has been clear in expressing how important existing buildings are when it comes to reaching carbon targets. Heritage buildings

Environment committee   decided to go after environmental charities, and they chose as their weapon the Canada Revenue Agency, threatening to take away charitable status from groups that were very strong proponents of climate change issues. Many of these groups also deal with our environmental heritage

Environment committee   with subject and moving towards object. I raise that specifically in relation to issues of climate change. There is an effect of climate change that will be affecting cultural heritage and cultural practice profoundly. The change in the movement of herds—caribou, for example, where I am

Environment committee   with the Minister of Environment and Climate Change. I think it's well beyond my station to comment on the appropriateness of that, but I would simply observe that the way Parks Canada Agency is organized is that there are a number of directorates, and each has an equal place at the executive

Environment committee  , the architecture, and environmental considerations. As a final step, the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Canada is responsible for approving the heritage designation of federal buildings. As you can see, there are many factors at play that PSPC as an organization must consider

Environment committee  It is true that the Parks Canada Agency is responsible for built heritage, under the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Ms. McKenna. I think built heritage is in the right place, and for good reasons, historically speaking. On the other hand, a minister's

Environment committee   gases, the impacts of climate change, clean energy technologies, and the progress in implementing sustainable development strategies. Obviously, the last one is of real importance, given our committee's report on FSDA, the Federal Sustainable Development Act. The other ones