Environment committee  No. The Senior MERA Committee is an organization that has been in place since the late seventies, I believe. It's the process by which the recommendations for a boundary for a national park, when it's being established, go through. It has representation from—

Environment committee  No, they were not.

Environment committee  I'll maybe fast-forward to the end of the process. The participants include senior officials from the three territories, as well as ADM levels from a number of federal government departments. The recommendation that is developed through many years of consultation is brought for

Environment committee  Yes. In fact we have a comprehensive monitoring program that's undertaken in all national parks. It looks at all of the key ecosystems and establishes measures for measuring change for each of those key ecosystems in every national park. Nahanni has a monitoring program and Nááts

Environment committee  Madam Chair, thank you for the opportunity to appear again before this committee. Our presentation will provide further details on the pathway to achieving target 1 of the 2020 Biodiversity Goals and Targets for Canada, and a status report on Parks Canada’s work to expand the n

Environment committee  Our presentation will provide further details... I think I'll just continue in English, because I hear the translation coming back at me.

Environment committee  Okay. Our presentation will provide further details on the pathway to achieving Canada target one of the 2020 biodiversity goals and targets for Canada and a status report on Parks Canada’s work to expand the national park and national marine conservation area systems. I will f

Environment committee  I can start, if that's possible. As I mentioned in testimony, I think that working together is going to be absolutely key. There is no one authority responsible for protected areas or other types of areas that can contribute to biodiversity. I think we all recognize that there a

Environment committee  At Parks Canada we have a unique perspective on the management of our sites. We have park management plans that are consulted on and then endorsed and signed by the minister. It sets the framework for what will happen in any given national park. This allows our superintendents to

Environment committee  Yes. We do have marine conservation areas in the Great Lakes, and they actually count, strangely enough, towards the terrestrial target. For example, with the recent work in establishing Lake Superior national marine conservation area, it was for a short time the largest freshw

Environment committee  It's actually the reason we have identified that three members of our steering committee need to come from national indigenous organizations. We're going to be exploring the potential opportunities for indigenous protected areas; those are ill-defined at this point. I think it wo

Environment committee  I would like to reflect on something that I think Steven Nitah said in testimony, and that was on the importance of working with indigenous groups and recognizing the need for support and capacity in order for communities to participate in protected area establishment. Finally,

Environment committee  Sure. Probably the way I would start is to say there's often a conversation around the idea of a balance in conservation and visitation. We tend to look at it slightly differently. We look at it from the perspective of how our social science tells us that actual visitations cre

Environment committee  To start, I would indicate that the response to the IUCN mission has a lot of different elements to it that are going to implicate a number of different departments. From an overall perspective, the response to the mission takes a certain process in which you have to go stage by

Environment committee  I can start. As you're probably aware, the federal government will work as a team in terms of involvement in the Teck project and review. There's a wide variety of departments that are providing certain types of expertise to that process because they are regulators. Others such