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Environment committee I think our concern right now is that the magnitude of the impacts of the climate change is going to overwhelm the anticipated effects. I think we may be thinking on a 20-year time scale, so we're a little concerned that the language around water levels isn't quite as explicit
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
David Sweetnam
Environment committee Thank you, Chair. The effects of climate change are widespread and consequential. Fast-acting institutions, elastic regulations, and early-warning systems are needed as part of an adaptive management process to address these changes. But according to the United Nation's
April 1st, 2014Committee meeting
David Sweetnam
Environment committee Yes, a 30% cut at Environment Canada is a very exciting thing. I don't know how reducing your budget by 30%, and your staffing by 15%, and your climate change by 77% can get much more exciting than that. For those of you looking for help from the Government of Canada
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
John McKayLiberal
Environment committee Thank you, Mr. Chair. My questions are for Ms. Patricia Chow-Fraser. Among other things, you talked about the consequences of climate change on the water quality of the Great Lakes. I do not know if you have established a link between climate change and water levels, but I
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Environment committee Okay. I'm not a climate scientist, but I know from reading that the global circulation models do predict that with climate change there will be a drop in water levels. This is a link that I don't do research in, but this is what I've read. This drop in water levels that we're
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Dr. Patricia Chow-Fraser
Environment committee for Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, is that it has stayed low for the last 15 years. We do have a sense that some of that is definitely because of climate change, but some of that is also because of the dredging of the St. Clair River, which has also exacerbated that.
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Dr. Patricia Chow-Fraser
Environment committee in terms of the zebra mussels and other invasive species, human interventions, development pressures, clearing for crops, and the obscuring effect of climate change. We've had to go back to the drawing board a number of times and reassess the initial delisting targets to see whether
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Dr. Jeff Ridal
Environment committee consequences of global climate change is there are lower than normal water levels in the Great Lakes, and we are seeing this now. For lakes Huron and Michigan, which are essentially two lobes of the same lake, water levels have been at or below the long-term average since 1999. The mean
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Dr. Patricia Chow-Fraser
Environment committee on the nearshores? Was there wetland improvement? A lot of those things all contribute to nutrient loading—algae blooms, and throw in the climate change and throw in the zebra mussels to make it a lot more complicated. But we have received funding and we have done a lot of research. Prior
March 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Terry Murphy
Environment committee augmentation, so we actually hold water back up north to let it out slowly in the summer when there's no water in the riverways. Climate change, the patterns that it's creating...a better understanding of climate change will help us in the future to prepare better. Maybe we need bigger
March 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Terry Murphy
Environment committee I wanted to know something about green economy, and the question is for all three of you. It's important to invest in green infrastructure. What would you suggest to the federal government in that regard? Earlier, we talked about climate change and its repercussions on the work
March 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Environment committee is interrelated. I am getting to my questions. I was interested in what all three of you had to say, especially when it comes to climate change, which I think is very important to take into consideration in a study of the Great Lakes. All of you talked about how important it was to adapt
March 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Environment committee That's a good question. The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement has a climate change annex, and Conservation Ontario has a representative on that annex. That subcommittee is currently working on pulling together the current information. They're planning on having a webinar
March 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Bonnie Fox
Environment committee Thank you very much. I will continue in the same vein. I think you worked on the Green Economy Roadmap for Conservation Authorities in Ontario or a group closely related to you did. This document suggests creating sound partnerships to manage climate change, adapt
March 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Environment committee to the elements during the shorter duration of snow cover in the period when crop cover is absent. Obviously, again, climate change and the changing weather patterns impact our water quality protection efforts. We have to our adjust our agricultural practices on a very wide scale
March 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Don Pearson