Environment committee  Yes, thank you, Mr. Chairman. My name is Alex Manson and I'm director general of the domestic climate change policy at Environment Canada. I don't have the numbers right in front of me, Mr. Cullen, but I believe the decrease you're seeing in there is what Ms. Ruta

Environment committee  , especially the problem of climate change, are being run out of other departments, and I guess for the most part it's Natural Resources Canada, if you think of EnerGuide and so on. Also, there was another program funding an environmental research network in Canada that I guess was also

Environment committee  Thank you, Basia. Environment Canada works very closely with other government departments on the climate change file. Organizations such as PCO are constantly seeking our advice on the types of programming that should be put in place. The decisions at the end of the day

Environment committee  Yes. I just find it odd that on an issue like EnerGuide, which attacks the problem of climate change, the environment department doesn't have very much of a say. I find that odd. Thank you.

Environment committee  I think it's like Mr. Mokhtar has said. We had a number of programs in, let's say, climate change and other areas that were sunsetting, for which they were to get further priority established this fiscal year under the previous government. The current government is looking

Environment committee   on with our review of the Kyoto Protocol. We of course brought in aspects of what was happening with the government's climate change plan. That came in. It informed the work we did as a committee. We had no problem with doing that at the time, and we still produced a report--one that we're

Environment committee  . In other words, it's all about urgency. I cannot find a similar section in the Conservative plan, so that's a clear difference. On this side, given how this file is evolving and just to remind ourselves of why we're doing this, what it's about--climate change, global warming--I think we

Environment committee   with the theme of urgency and have the first meeting on impacts of climate change: scientific, social, economic? Is that what he's proposing?

Environment committee  I think it will work. There's an advantage in what you're proposing. What I'm now seeing is next week being as I've described, the first meeting on Tuesday being on both the scientific and economic impacts of climate change if we don't do anything. The impacts of action

Environment committee  I went to New York and looked at some of the modelling that is done by the UN. They had 40 models when I was there. I don't know what the number is now. What you get out depends on what you put in, in terms of the actual model of climate change. It is a very complex subject.

Environment committee  Let me clarify. I don't mean climate change models; I mean more of a business case model. Where would the components likely come from? What would the implications be? The committee hasn't really looked at that yet. We understand and we're supportive of the 2012 targets. My

Environment committee   that are researching climate change. Have there been any results achieved from all of the money we are investing? Is anything on the way?

Environment committee  I have a very quick last question. I didn't hear anything about climate change and greenhouse gases. It seems to me there's a consensus that global warming is having short, medium and long-term impacts. Mr. Freeman may have something to say about this. Surely global warming

Environment committee  With climate change, not specifically, but if you take a look at air health effects, particularly in vulnerable populations, there is evidence to suggest that smog, in particular, does have an impact on seniors as a vulnerable population--so not children, but a different

Environment committee  Thank you very much. I think there are effects of climate change that do affect children. For one thing, it's predicted that there will be an increase of rather unique or exotic illnesses that children can get because of the change in climate. We're going to have different