Environment committee  Is it up to me to answer? I can start. I have always held that you can't buy your way out of the climate change problem. It's not going to be enough. Money will certainly be required to develop the new technologies and to put in subsidies and incentives to get people to take the

Environment committee  What is what?

Environment committee  I haven't weighed myself in a long time. In kilos, it's about—

Environment committee  I think it sometimes can be very quick. I think it sometimes can take a while. Let me give you an example. In the 1970s the Japanese, for the first time, made an entry into the North American car market. That was because we had an energy crisis at the time. But what you saw was

Environment committee  Thank you. There are two parts to answer. There's an adaptation part and an emission reduction part. On adaptation, we certainly have a lot of infrastructure that was designed for what we might call a stable climate. We no longer have that situation; we have a climate that is

Environment committee  I don't think I can give a very brief answer. It's a very difficult question. The bottom line is it almost doesn't matter, as long as you start. Do something. Start wherever you start. It doesn't matter. I think we're running out of time. I'm not an alarmist, but I think we're ru

Environment committee  Undoubtedly. What I said was more appropriate to the part of the country you are from. I think the prairies are going to have specific problems because of water. As I said earlier, because more of the precipitation in winter will fall as rain and not snow, you won't get the sno

Environment committee  Absolutely. A good case in point is the mountain pine beetle that we have in British Columbia and Alberta. We used to be able to deal with it because winters were cold enough that most of the population was killed off. They're not now, so they can reproduce. That's going to be tr

Environment committee  I didn't say a hundred years.

Environment committee  Certainly the climate has a memory. It won't let us forget. We have altered the composition of the atmosphere by our introduction of greenhouse gases to levels that we haven't seen for close to a million years. We know what effect greenhouse gases have on the climate, and therefo

Environment committee  I'll just to try to answer your question to be helpful. We're going to see the potential for lower levels in the Great Lakes. We already do. I think we understand some of the reasons for that, and it has to do with evaporation, particularly the evaporation in winter. When you do

Environment committee  It would be preferable for me to answer you in English. I hope I clearly understood your question. Agriculture is actually a very difficult case for knowing what the impact is going to be. I've seen estimates on both one side and the other. It really depends on where you are. Ca

Environment committee  I think some of this is becoming more and more academic, if I may. Within the United States there are significant changes in motion. You only have to look at the number of bills before the House and Senate in the U.S. You only have to look at the actions that have been taken by

Environment committee  I'll try.

Environment committee  I perhaps should intervene and let you continue first, and then I'll come back with some of my own thoughts.