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Environment committee You have made some suggestions for the future, but if the government were to develop a made-in Canada plan containing all the points I mentioned earlier, such as air quality, smog, climate change, and so on, will that be enough, or do you think it should be a specific climate
October 3rd, 2006Committee meeting
Pablo RodriguezLiberal
Environment committee Do you think we can deal with climate change on our own, or must we be part of a bigger effort? Should there be international cooperation through treaties such as the Kyoto Protocol?
October 3rd, 2006Committee meeting
Pablo RodriguezLiberal
Environment committee Combating climate change must happen first within the federal family. It does not involve just two departments. It involves a concerted effort from the part of all departments. Mr. Bigras was asking me a question earlier about the relationship between the provinces
October 3rd, 2006Committee meeting
Johanne Gélinas
Environment committee It has been mentioned, Ms. Gélinas, that the previous government wanted to invest close to $6 billion in climate change activities. $1.6 billion was actually spent, which means that there is still $4.5 billion floating around somewhere. Actually, I am not sure I understand
October 3rd, 2006Committee meeting
Luc HarveyConservative
Environment committee There are at least three that have to do with climate change or the environment in general. We chose the one that was supposed to help develop a technology innovation demonstration project. We concluded that the foundation was relatively well managed, and had a good
October 3rd, 2006Committee meeting
Johanne Gélinas
Environment committee When we were doing our audit we found a variety of sources of information that date back to the 1990s. When the government started the national process for consulting on how to deal with climate change, information came forward from industry and other participants. Natural
October 3rd, 2006Committee meeting
David McBain
Environment committee The decision not to look at what was going on internationally and not to do some kind of comparison was made on purpose, because the bulk of the work was to cover federal programs and federal management of the climate change file. At the time, we couldn't cover anything broader
October 3rd, 2006Committee meeting
Johanne Gélinas
Environment committee The main reason we looked at SDTC was that it was really the only foundation that had—and still has—a clear focus on climate change. Also, a lot of money was given to that foundation to achieve greenhouse gas reductions. Those were the main reasons why we decided to go with SDTC.
October 3rd, 2006Committee meeting
Johanne Gélinas
Environment committee Treasury Board must be able to answer your question. On our side, we can send back to the committee some of the figures we have on how much money was given to other foundations with respect to climate change. We have that information in the office.
October 3rd, 2006Committee meeting
Johanne Gélinas
Environment committee I would just put this question here. Back in the fall of 2005, there was a major conference, a Kyoto conference in Montreal. Did you audit how much money the government has spent on conferences related to climate change, especially the Kyoto conference in Montreal?
October 3rd, 2006Committee meeting
Maurice VellacottConservative
Environment committee For given programs, we've looked at the money in detail, and that's in chapter 3. But for the overall envelope on climate change, we were looking at systems: Do they know, do they have the systems to know, and are they credible and functioning systems? We concluded the systems
October 3rd, 2006Committee meeting
Richard Arseneault
Environment committee Before we go to Ms. Leach's testimony, were you not able to find any place in government where an assessment of the overall strategy for climate change had been made, with subsidies on the one hand and subsidizing on the other?
October 3rd, 2006Committee meeting
Environment committee In actual fact, we are calling to integrate the energy and climate change. The two appear to be going in different directions. How do you reconcile that?
October 3rd, 2006Committee meeting
Richard Arseneault
Environment committee was the subsidies to the oil and gas industry and the federal efforts to address climate change—and how in fact that was reconciled. We discussed the petition, and the response to the petition, on page 3 of chapter 5, “Environmental Petitions”. You can certainly find the petition
October 3rd, 2006Committee meeting
Kim Leach
Environment committee This is the last question. Based upon these lessons learned, what is the single focus—specific to accountability—that any climate change plan must include?
October 3rd, 2006Committee meeting