Fisheries committee  We certainly are. We received substantial investments in DFO science, both in budget 2016 and budget 2017. We are extremely fortunate that we've been able to harness those new people and the new technologies and the new partnerships that we've been able to enter into, to apply to

Fisheries committee  Just to clarify, that's a graph that provides data, not projections, looking at sea level changes and ocean temperatures.

Fisheries committee  We can certainly provide to the committee a graph that has the data we have as it relates to parameters that we measure, as opposed to other departments.

Fisheries committee  I have a couple things. I appreciate your comments. What we have are tools. We have research projects that inform the development of tools that will allow communities, stakeholders, and our own departmental managers to incorporate climate change considerations into their decisio

Fisheries committee  It's difficult for the federal government to say, “This is the silver bullet that will solve issues of climate variability and climate change”. That's why I keep coming back to those same things, around all of us collectively reducing greenhouse gas emissions and being more energ

Fisheries committee  Broadly on climate change, or in a specific case?

Fisheries committee  Some of the things we looked at—and I'll use the small craft harbours example—when the risk assessment was being undertaken were things like the value, what information we have about landings, and the value of the transactions that are being undertaken from that harbour. What we

Fisheries committee  I recognize that you're reading directly from the report but acknowledge that I can't speak on behalf of Environment and Climate Change Canada.

Fisheries committee  I think you'll see—I'll turn to my colleague Pierre in a second—that the impacts of climate change are not going to be the exact same across Canada. In some places we'll see changes that will be positive for these ecosystem components, but negative for others. As water warms, we

Fisheries committee  I think you've pointed to why it's very important and what the value of the pan-Canadian climate change framework is about, which is departments, provinces, territories, and municipalities working together. Some of the items you touched on in your points could be informed by som

Fisheries committee  I'm not aware of our involvement, so that would be something I'd have to come back to the committee on.

Fisheries committee  I'll start—and then I'll turn to my colleagues to ask if they have anything they'd like to add—by reflecting that when we initiated our risk assessments, we began with the areas for which we had the most data. When we looked at the freshwater environment, we selected those areas

Fisheries committee  Pierre, did you have anything you want to add?

Fisheries committee  I will start, and then I'll ask my colleague, Keith Lennon, who's the lead of our climate change program nationally, if he has anything he'd like to add. As I said in my opening remarks, and I guess going back to what the commissioner said at the beginning, we looked at climate

Fisheries committee  I think, in the long term, that's the ideal outcome. Obviously, we don't have our colleagues here around the table who have managed the fisheries, so I can't speak to the processes that they undertake. The researchers who are working in Atlantic Canada on American lobster are doi