Environment committee  Mr. Chair, my name is Nadine Stiller, and I have been chair of the Prairie Provinces Water Board since 2018. I'm also the executive director with the new Canada water agency branch within Environment and Climate Change Canada. Today I'm representing the Prairie Provinces Water

Environment committee  The board's current challenges involve dealing with climate change-related extreme weather events, as I was discussing. There is also the issue of invasive mussels. This is why I brought both of these issues forward to you. These issues are the local governments' greatest

Environment committee   experience drought on a cyclical basis and, indeed, that is exacerbated by the effects of climate change. The Prairie Provinces Water Board presents a forum to help collaborate across the jurisdictions to address those challenges more effectively. I'll close by saying that the master

Environment committee   in the Eastern Townships, Beauce, Alberta as mentioned and British Columbia. Add to that the impact of climate change, and we don't yet know exactly how that will play out. We will only be able to see it through alteration of the precipitation regime. Less snow would accumulate

Environment committee   national and international best practices into our regulatory framework. For any new project, proponents are required to conduct an environmental assessment under applicable legislation. CNSC staff work with other federal departments, such as Environment and Climate Change Canada

Environment committee   water or to the environment, but we look at an all hazards analysis. I know this committee is interested also in climate change analysis and all the rest of it, so maybe we can get into that as well. Coming to your question about the pollution going into the Ottawa River from

Environment committee   issue in that, as I mentioned, the United States is also facing the effects of climate change and the relative scarcity of the resource. That said, the opportunity to look to another source—essentially Canada—always arises in the public debate, especially in the western United

Environment committee   depend a lot on the speed at which climate change is taking place, especially in the western United States. In other words, given the current structure of use in the United States, where about 80% of the water is consumed by the agricultural sector, and the speed of climate change

Environment committee  That's another vast question. In the mountains of both Canada and the United States, we are indeed seeing not necessarily a major decrease in precipitation over the whole year but a change in precipitation patterns. Before the advent of climate change two or three decades ago

Environment committee   and is punishing hard-working everyday Canadians across this country. While the rural member from Milton likes to accuse anyone who disagrees with him of being a climate change denier, I don't think he would say that about the Liberal premier from Newfoundland and Labrador, and I hope he

Environment committee  . They don't believe in climate change. They consistently prioritize the corporate interests of their greedy oil and gas masters over the needs of everyday Canadians. For that reason, Mr. Chair—and I hope I haven't taken too long—I move that we adjourn debate on this motion for now, so

Environment committee   to you because this is our final meeting with expert witnesses on this subject, and we've had these interruptions throughout. We've heard from Professor Lasserre that climate change is exacerbating the problems of drought and flooding. It has so much to do with water management

Environment committee   and climate change. In the motion establishing this study, it says that the committee wishes to invite co‑operatives to testify. However, no co‑op has been suggested for the witness list, so I would ask each party to send the clerk their suggestions, prioritized as usual, to make the task

Environment committee  That's a good question. I think it's just that “the website of the Department of the Environment” isn't necessarily a thing. There's the Department of the Environment and Climate Change. I think this is just common practice, to be honest. We could ask the officials if they have

Environment committee  I can elaborate, if you'd like. Maybe it will satisfy the question. All Government of Canada departments, including Environment and Climate Change Canada, publish their documents on the Government of Canada website rather than on specific departmental websites. This would just