Environment committee  Thank you for the question. The issues you raise are indeed,key issues in the course of the policy analysis on various options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We use various sets of analytical tools that pull together different types of information. One of the things we do

Environment committee  Yes, I think it was. I'm not sure which budget it was in, but it was announced in late 2007 by the former Minister of the Environment who is the current Minister of Environment, Minister Baird--

Environment committee  It has rolled out since then.

Environment committee  Merci bien. I wanted to come back and clarify the point about whether or not there is a plan to deal with the impacts of climate change in the context of the commissioner's report. There is a difference between a plan and a strategy. The commissioner has asked that there be a

Environment committee  Mr. Chair, may I add to that with one small point? Just to pick up on Mr. Wicklum's point with respect to the CESI program, CESI started in 2004 on a time-limited basis; in the 2010 budget the government made CESI a permanent program and funded it on an ongoing basis. This ha

Environment committee  There has been a great deal of work to do that. I'm afraid I don't have a lot of knowledge. I'm going to invite my colleague, Sue Milburn-Hopwood, to answer that. Is that fair, Sue?

Environment committee  I will defer to my colleagues on that.

Environment committee  Thank you for the question. The member is absolutely right in terms of moving forward on waste water effluent regs. I don't actually have the stats for the city of Montreal here with me, but I do know that the city actually discharges a large amount of sewage that would not me

Environment committee  I'm going to refer that question to my colleague, the director general of water.

Environment committee  The one point I would add, in addition to the comments by the commissioner, is that the member has pointed out a concern over water quality. I don't personally know this lake, but I assume it's completely within the boundaries of the province of Quebec. As such, a lot of the juri

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for this opportunity to speak to the standing committee about the report tabled in Parliament yesterday by the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development. I would also thank the commissioner for his report. I welcome his input because i

Environment committee  I have a quick response. I think I see transparency at work here, and I thank the honourable member for these observations and the advice. I think they're valuable. I'll carry them back. I'm also going to talk to DFO colleagues about their timeline.

Environment committee  My apologies to the honourable member. The period of 2008 was a period of great transition in this domain as a result of the passage of the Federal Sustainable Development Act. So the work that was happening, in terms of assessing the weaknesses to deal with the frustrations....

Environment committee  I apologize, but I joined the department after that work was done.

Environment committee  No, they were done under the authority of the Minister of the Environment.