Environment committee  Specifically for large mammals...?

Environment committee  In general, Parks Canada is involved where there are opportunities. It's very active in creating the linkages with provincial parks or other parks managed or protected by other authorities. For the Mountain Parks block, if you take it as a block, the world heritage designation is

Environment committee  If I may add to that, the devil is in the details, as usual. Some species are overharvested or poached, so you don't want those to be mapped, right? For peregrine falcon nests, are you going to post where the nests are? No. That's one example. Another thing that becomes a real

Environment committee  I can add one specific example. A particular plant is susceptible to a newly introduced beetle. That beetle eats up the plant and puts it at risk. That insect survives because in certain parts of Canada we have slightly warmer winters. It would have died a century ago because the

Environment committee  I was expecting... The last time we were called here, we had a question about park establishment. This is about park management and the primacy of the ecological integrity rule that it has to be maintained—

Environment committee  Yes--and the need for protecting critical habitat. I have to mention first that critical habitat for the southern mountain caribou, which we're talking about in this case, has not yet been defined. Work is under way. It is absolutely clear that any and all discussions of the Ma

Environment committee  Let me try to add something. In its structure, SARA is quite prescriptive and is charging us largely to look at the immediate threats that species are facing. It's the emergency ward. Understanding that in the spread of many invasive species, diseases, and things such as that, t