Environment committee   as international climate negotiations. You will soon receive my more detailed brief, which presents my thoughts surrounding the committee's work. First off, I will say that my remarks come at a time when the scientific community of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC

Environment committee   stringently reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, and that that won't happen if we continue to support the fossil fuel industry—the main problem is that sector. Fossil fuel subsidies simultaneously create three major issues with respect to addressing climate change. First, no matter what

Environment committee   eight billion people because of reliable and affordable energy, largely from fossil fuels. Solving climate change by 2050 is not as simple as eliminating fossil fuels and may be self-defeating. The objective should not be to eliminate fossil fuels. The objective should

Environment committee   which pathway we seem to have chosen and it is the wrong pathway. To be clear, we support many types of subsidies to address climate change. We can't hope to decarbonize industrial sectors like steel, cement and aluminum without major public subsidies and other support

Environment committee  Thank you for your question. It's also about the responsibility of Canadian provinces that are committed to fighting climate change. It's a challenge of consistency. We see some provinces being very proactive and making very ambitious commitments, while others drag their feet

Environment committee   I think the oil and gas issue is fundamental, because it's the big issue that no one is talking about in terms of addressing climate change. As long as we continue to support this industry directly and indirectly, we're investing in the issue rather than in solutions. As a result

Environment committee  , because they are the bearers of the climate change issue. We must therefore find ways to curb their production. Subsidies artificially bring down the costs associated with this sector of activity. If the externalities generated by the oil and gas sector in Canada were taken

Environment committee  . I indicated that audits of specific programs like the ones I am discussing today would follow. As the programs are ongoing, my reports provide a type of mid-term report card that should help improve outcomes, because the climate change clock never stops ticking. By auditing

Environment committee  Thank you, Commissioner. Before starting the first round of questions, I would like to welcome our colleague Wilson Miao, who is with us this morning. I would like to let committee members know that the plan was for the Minister of Environment and Climate Change to appear

Environment committee  I'm very curious about the whole modelling issue that you raised in your report. Natural Resources Canada had a number based on their modelling. Environment and Climate Change Canada had, obviously, a different model and I think were more conservative in their estimates

Environment committee  As you know, a lot of problems arise when we start to turn the strategy into concrete measures. I'll repeat: the department has to develop realistic plans. It's fine to be optimistic, because we have to be. Climate change is a reality that we may not be able to change, but we

Environment committee  I entirely agree with that. Reading your report, I find it hard to weed through the data and identify what is credible and what isn't. You called the Department of Environment and Climate Change unrealistic in terms of its ability to model the plans. How is it possible to say

Environment committee  I don't know. You can ask the department representatives. We evaluated its performance, and you have provided a good summary. That's all I can say. We have often said that we had to be realistic. It says in the appendix to our November report on climate change that before I

Environment committee   in this area, and how would that interact with the audits that you'll be doing on the act that we passed last June on climate change accountability?

Environment committee   that it's one office. We have the new mandate from the net-zero act to look at a very specific aspect of climate change mitigation. Obviously we do audits on climate change regardless of that having passed in June, and we've been doing that for 20 years, but we are now assessing what