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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 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 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 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 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 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 Thank you. We hear a lot of talk about smog, air quality and climate change. They are all important considerations. In specific terms, how important is the effort to counter climate change? Do you think the government should consider this a priority?
October 3rd, 2006Committee meeting
Pablo RodriguezLiberal
Environment committee I repeat, it is not my job to set the government's priorities. I understand that climate change is a priority for the federal government. I have reported on the progress made so far.
October 3rd, 2006Committee meeting
Johanne Gélinas
Environment committee Are you not concerned about the fact that climate change is not one of the government's five priorities?
October 3rd, 2006Committee meeting
Pablo RodriguezLiberal
Environment committee I think the results achieved so far are disturbing. If climate change remains a priority for Canada, it is disturbing that we do not have a much more aggressive and rigorous approach in order to move from slowing down emissions to actually reducing green house gas emissions
October 3rd, 2006Committee meeting
Johanne Gélinas
Environment committee The government often talks about the costs, sometimes astronomical, for setting up an effective climate change program. It always comes back to the issue of money, to the fact that this is expensive. In your opinion and that of the members of your team, is there not also a huge
October 3rd, 2006Committee meeting
Pablo RodriguezLiberal
Environment committee We often talk about the cost of inaction. It is true that inaction does involve a cost. However, in the course of our work, we saw no studies that provided any information on the cost of adaptation and the consequences of climate change, for example. This information
October 3rd, 2006Committee meeting
Johanne Gélinas
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