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Environment committee Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and members of the House Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development. Thank you for the invitation to appear before this committee as it undertakes the five-year review of the Species at Risk Act for the purposes of section 129. I am
April 22nd, 2010Committee meeting
Alastair MacPhee
Environment committee You have each one of those in front of you.
April 22nd, 2010Committee meeting
Alastair MacPhee
Environment committee Okay. The non-derogation clause in section 3 of SARA is something we don't support. That's also in your recommendation. We don't accept it because it's not in the language of the Constitution, and it has to be rewritten to be consistent with paragraphs 25(a) and 25(b). The com
April 22nd, 2010Committee meeting
Alastair MacPhee
Environment committee Thanks for the question. I'll take one step backwards so you can see how this evolved. When the original legislation was being negotiated, the aboriginal working group had a very firm position that there would be COSEWIC, which would be the scientific side, and there would be an
April 22nd, 2010Committee meeting
Alastair MacPhee
Environment committee I think that would depend on the issue. I'll defer to my colleague, Joshua, who might be able to answer.
April 22nd, 2010Committee meeting
Alastair MacPhee
Environment committee Yes. I hope that a representative of the aboriginal traditional knowledge subcommittee will actually show up to speak directly to this committee. I think that would be a better approach. But in our view, the people on the aboriginal traditional knowledge subcommittee, the subcomm
April 22nd, 2010Committee meeting
Alastair MacPhee
Environment committee I'll turn that question over to Joshua.
April 22nd, 2010Committee meeting
Alastair MacPhee
Environment committee We're negotiating with Environment Canada to review a whole suite of policies connected with the Species at Risk Act, and it's taken some time to get to that level. We haven't been involved in the regulations and some other aspects of this. What you did in the Yukon sounds very
April 22nd, 2010Committee meeting
Alastair MacPhee