Environment committee  Do you think this tool would still be advantageous for Canada and that it should be taken into consideration in the future climate change mitigation plan?

Environment committee  Yes. The National Climate Change Secretariat produced a report in 2003, if I'm not mistaken, the latest one. Their function was one of coordination amongst the departments.

Environment committee  The section you are referring to is entitled “Integrate energy and climate change”. In our audit, it became clear, quite quickly, that economic development was increasing, as was consumption and energy production, and that in this context, climate change was at stake

Environment committee  Okay. My other question deals with pages 26 and 27 of Chapter 1 of your report. They deal with emissions trading. From what I understand, you do not consider this system a panacea, but instead an interesting climate change mitigation policy tool. Moreover, I am very happy

Environment committee  I don't know. The only thing I can say at this stage is that it will be interesting to get answers from the departments. On the basis of what we have seen on the climate change file, many times decisions were made without sound analyses and good analyses. So in this case

Environment committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I would like to begin by thanking you once again for your 2006 report. It is, in general, highly elucidating, although it makes only scant reference to how climate change programs are performing. Even though you may not be able

Environment committee   to what you were proposing. Would it be useful if every year the Minister of the Environment had to come up with a climate change plan that would report, as you have asked, on such things as what measures have been taken to meet our obligations under Kyoto concerning emission limits

Environment committee  That's great to hear, because tomorrow night we're going to be voting on such an idea, Bill C-288, proposed by my friend, Pablo Rodriguez, to ensure we meet our global climate change obligations under Kyoto. If the bill passes, we'll be debating it here, but it's good to hear

Environment committee   in the near future, so we have to look long term, and climate change is a long-term issue. But short term, in our mind, was really dealing with the Kyoto commitment.

Environment committee   accompanied by Neil Maxwell, Richard Arseneault, David McBain and Kim Leach. This report is the fruit of 18 months of work. It deals mostly with the federal government's approach to climate change covering up to mid-June 2006. In the course of our audit work, we have tried to answer

Environment committee   warming over the course of this century unless dramatic reductions are achieved in emissions. Since 1988, governments have mandated the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC, to review and assess the wealth of scientific research on this subject. The IPCC's conclusions

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My name is Mark Winfield. I'm the director of the Pembina Institute's environmental governance program. With me today is Dr. Matthew Bramley, the director of our climate change program. The definition of toxic substances under the Canadian Environmental

Environment committee  Mr. Chairman, I agree with my colleague. I think that in this particular instance, the Committee should focus more, and with more rigour than in the past, on the Estimates. For political reasons, as you may recall, Mr. Flaherty's last budget set aside some $2 billion for climate

Environment committee   it with climate change. The cause and effect relationships in toxicology are much more complicated and the issues are much more individual, and therefore the manufacture of doubt is a much more lucrative industry and much easier to pursue. I want to give an example of the kinds of things we

Environment committee  The salient point is that the Government of Canada does not have the authority to dismiss ministers; the Prime Minister has that authority. That's the fundamental reason why this is out of order and also why I believe it's political mischief. The member did say that climate