Environment committee  Thank you for being here today. As a former public servant, I really appreciate the work that you do. Commissioner, it's always a pleasure to see you. You always fill the room whenever you're presenting, and you do very important work. I want to sort of backdrop my questions w

Environment committee  Okay, then I'll go specifically to the marine endangered species that are covered in your report. How do you think we're doing there?

Environment committee  Okay. I have a question then for Mr. Morel on aquatic ecosystems. Are you responsible for science in that section?

Environment committee  Okay. I'm curious. In terms of the changes that happened previously—in 2012, etc.—how is your science complement doing these days in terms of staffing and funding? I would ask Parks Canada that as well.

Environment committee  Clearly from the auditor's report, there's more work to do, particularly around species at risk. I'll turn to Parks Canada. Is your department only park wardens, or is it also science and park wardens?

Environment committee  If you have the answer to the question, where are you today compared to after the cuts in 2012?

Environment committee  Am I out of time, Mr. Chair?

Environment committee  Again, I'll go back to the commissioner on this question. I'm very happy to see the increase in marine protected areas, up now to 7.9%. Are you comfortable, from what you've seen so far, that the regulations in place in those marine protected areas will protect marine species a

Environment committee  Okay.

Environment committee  I want to go enforcement for just a minute, Ms. McCready, if possible. I understand that you have at least one officer in my riding, which is appreciated.

Environment committee  At one point DFO planned to have six enforcement officers in the Kootenays. There are none there today. There are no fisheries biologists in my part of the world at all. When you need assistance in terms of enforcement, working with other departments, it must feel a little lonely

Environment committee  I'll try to get in two questions, starting with enforcement again. Back in 2007, one of the ecosystems people we had on board was dealing with a developer who was about to blow up a cliff along the waterfront. The developer turned to him and said, “How much will it cost me if I

Environment committee  Thank you. Thank you for being here. As a former public servant, I'm always interested in the interplay between science and politics, but I'm just going to stick with science today. We heard the report about a week ago concerning the need for Canada to do twice as much, twic

Environment committee  One of the things I'm certainly interested in, and I know that the committee is too, is best management practices around climate change when you look around the world. I'm interested in your perspective, again putting Canada aside, because we're not here to comment politically on

Environment committee  Sorry, but can you name some of those as we go along?