Environment committee  No. That is probably a question for the officials from Environment Canada and other departments. But I still think that it is important to inform parliamentarians of the existence of those sites and their exact location. You said there were 15 in Montreal. I believe I said that t

Environment committee  I am going to let Mr. Sloan answer that question.

Environment committee  Let me tell you that the climate change problem has been around for many years. It was one of the main topics at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. That is when Canada and other countries around the world signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. As to the sec

Environment committee  Once again, it is a political decision. The government has announced a regulatory sector-by-sector approach. That's the government's decision. Our responsibility is to follow up on the plan, to see if it is working well and if there are gaps in terms of management, data, informat

Environment committee  Yes, with pleasure.... To say again, my predecessors have gone back from 10 years ago, and it was really a mess. The government didn't know how many sites there were, or what the risks of those sites were. Some were since 2005 and it's particularly accelerated in recent years.

Environment committee  It was in the 1940s. That's an important point. The four big projects date from the 1940s, and the 1950s. Gunnar in Saskatchewan is from the 1950s. Maxwell was in the 1960s. Sydney tar sands was a joint fed-prov from the 1960s as well. These really are legacies before federal reg

Environment committee  In terms of the 2020 plan?

Environment committee  We noted there have been two regulations to date. The government has announced a third one for the transportation sector, but a lot of work needs to be done by 2020. And there are still no regulations for the six other sectors.

Environment committee  That might be a political decision. What I can say is that, three weeks ago, the government announced a third regulation for transportation, but it is not in place yet. It takes time between announcing and implementing the regulation. Until now, there have been no other regulatio

Environment committee  I noted in the report that we are leaving serious environmental problems on the hands of future generations. Actually, we are going to pass down thousands of contaminated sites across the country along with the impacts of climate change. It has already been two years since we sub

Environment committee  We asked if there was an impact analysis on the Canadian economy, as part of the 2020 plan, but the people from Environment Canada told us that there was no analysis.

Environment committee  No, they did not refuse, but the assessment of all the economic impacts has not been carried out yet.

Environment committee  I would agree absolutely, sir, that there has been progress. I hope I was very clear. There has been a lot of progress on this file since 2005. A national inventory didn't exist then. The procedures to classify didn't exist. The first steps to actually manage them didn't exist. T

Environment committee  I will, because I actually went up to Yellowknife and to Giant Mine. I have to say that the public officials who are working on that site, particularly Aboriginal and Northern Affairs, and Public Works, are really, for me, an example of the dedication of the public service in thi

Environment committee  No. The permafrost melted because of the operations on that site. When they originally decided they were going to store this underground, the plan was that the permafrost would be there. Because of continuous mining operations and underground operations heating the soil underneat