Agriculture committee  Thank you very much. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before the committee today. Canada faces a climate emergency that is resulting in more extreme weather—from heat waves to droughts to floods. I was moved by the testimony before this committee last week from Karen Ros

Agriculture committee  First of all, we know that there are inefficient and more efficient grain dryers, and already farmers are investing in the more efficient ones. We did a study called “Zeroing in on Emissions”. We looked across the economy at studies on how we can decarbonize as a result of carbo

Agriculture committee  What I recommend to the committee is to design an approach such as rebates. It is a much more effective way to address this problem.

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question, Ms. Bessette. We know that Canada is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change and that the effects here will be double those felt on average overall. We are witnessing more extreme events, like the floods in Quebec and the forest fires

Agriculture committee  Yes. Carbon pricing has been in place in my province since 2008. We have seen that when carbon pricing was imposed, all sectors started to make changes to their operations. New technologies arrive on the market and manufacturers can sell their products to other provinces and coun

Agriculture committee  Propane and natural gas are both greenhouse gases. I do a lot of work on methane. Natural gas is mainly composed of methane, which is a much more potent gas than CO2. When there are methane leaks, it is a huge problem. Since we have to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in all econ

Agriculture committee  I wanted to stress the fact that this was a good approach. As to the amount of funds, your committee could recommend an increase. I agree that it will be expensive to make the transition everywhere in Canada by 2030. But the funds will continue to give a signal, which is very imp

Agriculture committee  Yes, there are other ways to offer the rebate. We have to retain the principle of a signal given by carbon pricing so that farmers who find ways to reduce their fossil fuel costs can be compensated and that inventors of new technologies are motivated to present alternate solution

Agriculture committee  The way the carbon price has been designed is that it started at $20 a tonne and has been going up gradually year by year. This creates time to adapt. I'm in favour of supporting farmers in this transition process through the revenue recycling, grants, research and so on that th

Agriculture committee  First of all, I'd just like to point out that when I said “fossil fuel subsidy”, I based that on the WTO definition of subsidies: “a subsidy shall be deemed to exist if...there is a financial contribution by a government or any [other] public body within the territory of a Member

Agriculture committee  It's a great question. We're seeing a really rapid acceleration in low-carbon technologies. For instance, if you look at the International Energy Agency in the year 2000, it predicted that we would add 18 gigawatts of solar energy between then and 2020. I think around 2016 we ad

Agriculture committee  If we preserve the price on emissions, then we will see more and more solutions deployed. I would just like to say one thing, which is that I don't think combustion is the only way to go. Heat pumps have been used to heat homes, to heat industry and in industrial processes. Heat

Agriculture committee  We definitely don't want to release methane into the atmosphere, but in a proper composting process, you could make it aerobic as opposed to anaerobic so that you're not producing methane.

Agriculture committee  Thank you.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the opportunity to appear before the committee today. The David Suzuki Foundation has long advocated for effective regulations to rapidly reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sector. Because it is a short-acting greenhouse gas with a 20-year, climate-forc