Environment committee   forecasts get better, and when that happens hydrologic forecasts get better. I think we have to condition producers and work with them to design tools that they can use when climate change has more and more of an impact on their operations.

Environment committee   baseline data at a watershed scale to support assessments of new development proposals. They also told us that more research, monitoring and modelling is needed to anticipate and track climate change and other threats to freshwater quality, quantity and the health and functioning

Environment committee   a sense of the impacts of climate change and pollution. Therefore that all stems back to this: What are the stresses on the aquatic health of these rivers, and how do we move forward to protect them? I think it's an excellent observation, and there are some really good models out

Environment committee   of emissions that are directly reduced by federal carbon pricing”; (f) Canada now ranks 62 out of 67 countries, dropping four places from the previous year, according to the Climate Change Performance Index; The committee call on the Liberal government to cancel their planned tax hike

Environment committee  With regard to meeting with witnesses from the provinces and territories, including Quebec, at the beginning of the study I spoke with the Quebec minister of the environment, the fight against climate change, wildlife and parks, Mr. Benoit Charette, and he told me that he did

Environment committee  -economic well-being due to the disasters around climate, rising temperatures and increased greenhouse gas emissions. First, water security is at the nexus of climate change and national security. The effects of climatic change are already seen through a higher frequency of hydro

Environment committee   of responding to climate change-induced acceleration of the global water cycle should be an impetus for governments at all levels, but especially federally, to work harder to coordinate and orchestrate the significant capacity in Canada's water sector for the benefit of the country

Environment committee   in North America in that regard. To do this better, because collaboration is hard enough, we need collaboration around data harmonization. A key example of this is climate change and the challenges presented by climate change. Floods, droughts and wildfires occur on a regular basis

Environment committee   harder, and I think that climate change is making that more difficult. You have to remember that the boundary waters treaty was created in 1909 over just that kind of conflict. It was based out of some things that were happening between Alberta and Montana at the time with water

Environment committee   that are there to help in humanitarian ways, and without that we would not be able to help refugees or put people back on a course for a productive life in a different place. More importantly, we are there when there are drought crises and climate change impacts, and countries like Canada, as donors

Environment committee  —with respect to international development and how important it is that we ensure that global water security and food insecurity are not issues that persist. Particularly, because of climate change right now, we're seeing more frequent droughts, floods and extreme weather events, which

Environment committee  Thank you for that great question. Typically, what happens with all different types of scientific studies is that there's a component where indigenous science.... There are many different terms, but recently Environment and Climate Change Canada has an indigenous science

Environment committee  . That will have repercussions not only for Canada, but also for all of the Americas. As we saw last year, Canada must be ready to defend its lack of action when those things happen because it has not done enough to fight climate change. That is arguably a threat to national security. What

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I welcome our witnesses. I'm going to start with Mr. Madramootoo. Earlier, the representative of the IJC, an organization created by the UN, and you talked about climate change, which is having a huge impact. While more developed countries

Environment committee  Canada, in my view, should be a world leader in addressing the issues around climate change in agriculture. You're quite correct that the people in the developing world, in the arid and semi-arid regions where some of the poorest of the poor live, carry a very high burden