Environment committee  Normally, Environment and Climate Change Canada should be among the five departments because it must lead by example. Was it close to being among the five departments or was it at the back of the pack?

Environment committee  Environment and Climate Change Canada developed the framework explaining how the departments should conduct their risk assessments. The department held meetings with the other departments, but it did not complete its own risk assessment.

Environment committee   prominently in your speaking notes. Of course, we haven't had a chance to read the entire report yet. I'm sure it's not all roses in Nova Scotia; however, it's nice to see that my home province seems to be taking climate change and climate action very seriously. I'm thinking provincially

Environment committee  Thank you, Commissioner, for appearing again. It's good to have you back. As you know, one of the tools being used in the pan-Canadian framework on climate change is carbon pricing—carbon taxes and cap and trade. We had the minister at committee very recently—in fact, at our

Environment committee   fully implemented across Canada, would have on greenhouse gas emissions. She was either unable or unwilling to say. In your work with the provinces in auditing progress under the federal government's climate change plan, have you been able to identify whether any work has been done

Environment committee   reduction. When I look at the comments about climate change, I think that's pretty obvious across the country, given all of the issues we've had in different parts of the country with floods and fires and all of that stuff. You were saying, “Meeting the...2030 target will require

Environment committee   with the failure by the federal government. Few federal departments or agencies have assessed or acted on climate change risks. Environment Canada did not develop an adaptation action plan. Environment Canada did not provide adequate leadership and guidance to other federal organizations

Environment committee   up and audit. The role this committee can play is to bring the government to this table and ask them those questions. We have been auditing climate change for a decade at least, if not more, and we will continue to audit this subject.

Environment committee   are concerned that all this bill has done is frustrate regulatory reform in order to advance this government's climate change agenda and has baked too much broad policy subject matter into an otherwise very technical decision-making process. With respect to the specifics of this bill

Environment committee   made Canada's electricity system one of the cleanest, most renewable, and most reliable in the world. Hydro power has virtually no greenhouse gas emissions, and it has a key role in achieving Canada's climate change targets. Studies indicate that to meet our 2030 and 2050

Environment committee   with and commitment to address climate change, the shifting investment away from fossil fuels to renewables, including by many of your own members, public concern with the project review process, as Mr. Amos had identified, and the increasing commitment to finally resolve land claims and observe

Environment committee   hinders or contributes to the government's environmental obligations and commitments in respect of climate change is welcomed by our sector. We expect to make positive contributions to the pan-Canadian framework for clean growth and climate change, yet there must be as explicit

Environment committee   and the fuel we provide. We've looked at the numbers there to calculate what that has been over the last two or three decades. It's a real contribution to the climate change file.

Environment committee  . When you are looking at our industry and its contribution on the climate change file, it's significant. Also, as I mentioned in my remarks, 20% of Canada's clean electricity today comes from nuclear power.

Environment committee  , and 84 of the bill, which set out the factors to be considered when impact assessment is ongoing, we need to include that the impacts of the project on an ecosystem's biodiversity is a factor. Currently those sections consider climate change, but biodiversity and biodiversity loss