Environment committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair, and committee members. Thank you for inviting Wildlife Habitat Canada as a witness in your study of licensed hunting and trapping in Canada. Over the next few minutes I would like to talk about wetlands, waterfowl, and the benefits they provide, includi

Environment committee  As you can see, a very small stamp has generated a lot of development and promotion of some beautiful art in this country. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair and committee members, for your time. I’d be pleased to answer any questions that you have.

Environment committee  The one comment I'd make, Mr. Leef, is there is one thing we have to be careful about. I think hunting is very important. Angling is an important component for what we've talked about here. The other thing is, though, we can't categorize everybody separately because many birders

Environment committee  —and many people who enjoy the outdoors, campers and others, all of them obviously have a role to play in conservation as well. Certainly, the history has been in terms of having people who see real value in the resource. Back in the 1920s and 1930s in the United States, it real

Environment committee  Climate change is obviously something that has to be taken into account for all natural resource management strategies. Really, if you look at one of the largest threats we have in the world now, it's loss of biodiversity. The largest threats in that loss of biodiversity would be

Environment committee  Yes. I think the first question was around the real challenges to habitat loss. I think one of the biggest challenges we have is the death by a thousand cuts, basically the cumulative impacts of a lot of people doing very little things that over time result in major effects. We o

Environment committee  I think earlier on I talked about the fact that you can protect something or you can rehabilitate something if it's screwed up. I think one of the good things about the NCP is that it does have a fair amount of money engaged in protection through land securement and other things.

Environment committee  Having been on the provincial scene for a long time—and this is fairly new to me—I will say that being on HAAP has been a very valuable experience. I think it's very good to get people together from across the country who have a vested interest in conservation and in hunting, tra