Environment committee  Deputies and ministers--but particularly deputies--are now given performance-based contracts that designate certain activities that they have to do with respect to other statutory obligations. It would certainly be possible to list work in this area, but to be honest, I'm not pri

Environment committee  As for how many committee meetings you should have, I have no idea. As for the size of the list, I had nothing to do with it. It materialized in the legislation. I guess one could go through and say yes, this is less controversial or causes less potential conflict with province

Environment committee  I'll tell you that both in my own work and in the work I've done with the commission over these past ten years, one of the great frustrations has been the inability of the current model of SEA to work, to have any influence on decisions. Personally, I wouldn't be opposed to seein

Environment committee  Can I just respond to your question? It's an interesting one. If we read back through so many of the commissioner's reports over these past ten or eleven years, so often they have said there's no nerve centre; there's no one pulling all this together at the centre. It seems to m

Environment committee  I don't think it relies on this law, but this law could hopefully facilitate an outreach from the federal government to other levels of government, and perhaps from cities and provincial governments to the federal government, to work collaboratively to green the country.

Environment committee  I didn't see any prescribed outcomes either. What I understood the bill to be saying was that the federal cabinet would make and continue to make the decisions about how to allocate resources in this country, but they'd do it with the best information possible, fully understandin

Environment committee  It makes sense to me that this will be worked on for months before the bill is tabled...and presumably the government. But I don't know--30 days, 60 days--I don't have a strong point of view one way or the other.

Environment committee  I think it seeks out ways to work together, recognizing that these are national challenges and they don't just operate in one city or one province--they're everywhere. Frankly, to make this a transformative process by which we really get the country on a sustainable path, it's go

Environment committee  Environment is a shared jurisdiction between the two levels of government. I understood it to apply to federal institutions, for sure, but I think it also applies to federal functions. The federal government spends a lot of money on shared-cost projects in various jurisdictions.

Environment committee  I think the federal government can already refuse to sign agreements if it's not happy with the conditions for the outcomes it's seeking to invest Canadian taxpayers' money in to pursue.

Environment committee  Yes, I agree with that.

Environment committee  The same question?

Environment committee  Yes. The run-of-the-river stuff is very interesting. I'm not opposed to dams and hydroelectricity power from dams if they're done well, thought out, and the implications for the rest of the ecosystem are taken into consideration. Hydro power, in that sense, is part of the energy

Environment committee  Sure.

Environment committee  Yes, as I said, if the ecosystemic implications are taken into consideration in the development of the project and things like that.