Environment committee  First of all, I thank you for that very, very important question and observation. We are only beginning to see just what those costs might look like. We first have to determine exactly what kinds of impacts we're talking about. When climate change migrations become a crisis

Environment committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thanks as well to all the witnesses for being with us. Mr. Sanford, in your opening remarks, I think you painted the most comprehensive picture of the impact of climate change on human life as a whole. In particular, you discussed agriculture

Environment committee  Yes, we used to talk a lot about adapting to climate change or reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Perhaps that was because we hadn't acted quickly or forcefully enough over the years, but my sense now is that we talk more about adaptation than mitigation, although both

Environment committee   week of the motion being adopted. Not only did Environment and Climate Change Canada fail to respond within the timeline ordered by the committee, but they failed to provide the complete information the committee ordered. Instead of providing the committee with a carbon tax

Environment committee  Thank you. It reads: Whereas the Committee passed a motion on Thursday, March 21, 2024, which stated in part: The committee order the production of “Environment and Climate Change Canada's provincial-territorial computable general equilibrium model — EC-Pro” including (i

Environment committee  I'll go back to where I was interrupted: And whereas Environment and Climate Change Canada has failed to provide all information ordered by the committee within the adopted timeline. Accordingly, the Committee views this failure to comply with the committee order

Environment committee  It says: Views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not reflect those of Environment and Climate Change Canada or the Government of Canada. Here we are: The committee order the production of “Environment and Climate Change Canada's provincial-territorial

Environment committee   into climate change denial as their policy plank now. It's not that they don't agree with the fact that our climate is changing; they've now decided that they don't like the answers they've received—

Environment committee   tax. We've seen delays, and fair enough, because these are complicated matters to hand in, but to be handed a document that says this is made by Environment and Climate Change Canada, but doesn't reflect ECCC, and then just told that this is what our model is, how

Environment committee   requested. The least we can say is that the committee's motion was clear: We wanted to get information directly from the department concerned, Environment and Climate Change Canada. However, what do we see in the document that was submitted to us? Allow me to cite it in English

Environment committee  It reads: Whereas the Committee passed a motion on Thursday, March 21, 2024, which stated in part: The committee order the production of “Environment and Climate Change Canada's provincial-territorial computable general equilibrium model - EC-Pro” including (i

Environment committee   no attention to that man behind the mirror. There is nothing to be seen here. Just go about your business.” That is what I thought of when I got this response from Environment and Climate Change Canada. It has the big “Draft” watermark across the front and it says on page 1, “Please note

Environment committee  That's okay. Mr. Chair, I would like to move the following motion: Given that: a. On Thursday, November 9, 2023, Derek Hermanutz, Director General, Economic Analysis Directorate, for Environment and Climate Change Canada, stated at committee: "I think we're probably

Environment committee   the department of it being one-third. Again, to go back to the original information that was provided by ECCC—a document that was not written by ECCC and is not supposed to speak on behalf of Environment and Climate Change Canada or the minister about the modelling and the economic

Environment committee   information that we can study. I'd love to hear from more experts. I think even Boris Johnson, in Canada today, said he wished the Conservatives in Canada would take climate change seriously. I think we could get some real study on this. I would say that we could study this for a minimum