Environment committee  Yes, it's Canadian agricultural land.

Environment committee  We would agree that you need to have effective conservation agreements that can be put in place and the guidelines to support their becoming an effective and moving tool.

Environment committee  We believe that the architecture is workable, but as one of the members suggested earlier, we need to work on the wording in the preamble—the stewardship, the cooperation, that sort of thing—to make it actually work, rather than just give it some wordage and let it lie. We need t

Environment committee  I'll take the risk of going first. I think society has always had a challenge putting an economic and a monetary value on things that don't have a direct cost. We all do that with our personal lives. How much do you work compared to how much time you spend with your family? Wha

Environment committee  Currently, because the agricultural industry operates largely on either private land or provincial land and SARA specifically speaks to federal land, we haven't had any direct challenges in that way. Our concern is that we want to get the act right, because we assume that the jur

Environment committee  Good morning, Mr. Chairman, committee members, fellow presenters, and observers. First I would like to comment that this is environment week, so in addition to happy birthday, we'll have a happy environment greeting. Thank you very much for the invitation to present to this com