Environment committee  When you have an opportunity to review a hard copy of my presentation, first of all you'll see the list of those 16 species specifically, and you'll see the authors of that study. If I understand your question correctly, you may be having some difficulty believing the magnitude

Environment committee  That's a very good question. I would--

Environment committee  The short answer is I would refer you to the authors of that paper. But to remind everybody, whether it's the low end or the high end, we are talking about very big numbers of cost to society.

Environment committee  I would just add this. Hopefully we've demonstrated that there are a lot of positive initiatives occurring right across the country. Partnerships, of course, are one of those successful examples. If there's something missing, in our opinion, at this time, it would be the investme

Environment committee  Just before I turn the microphone over to Ms. Gagnon, Madam, the answer is yes. Furthermore, we're encouraged that departments of the federal government, including Environment Canada but also other agencies, such as the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, are already participat

Environment committee  Excellent question. With our experience through the programs that we've been offering now for, in one case, almost 20 years, what would pleasantly surprise you, as it has us, is the receptivity of the public, including anglers and hunters, to actually respond to these threats i

Environment committee  Thank you very much. Obviously trapping depends on healthy wildlife--fur-bearing mammals, in this case. So anything that can detrimentally affect not only the animals themselves, not only those fur-bearers, such as beaver or pine marten, but anything that detrimentally affects

Environment committee  I wouldn't consider it invasive. It is non-indigenous, but it's not harming people or society.

Environment committee  Yes, and again, I appreciate the question, because there are examples where, for whatever reason, an ecological niche may become open. It's quite appropriate to examine filling that ecological niche.

Environment committee  It's absolutely been a win-win all around, environmentally and for society.

Environment committee  Yes, and in fact Environment Canada needs to complete the action plan for invasive alien terrestrial animal species. The federal government has been providing a number of very good resource documents, leadership documents, but we're not done yet.

Environment committee  No. Thank you for the question, though. We would emphasize that we fully understand the context of limited resources available to governments, whether they be local, provincial, or federal, when faced with numerous competing but worthwhile funding programs. Clearly, governments

Environment committee  Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I am Terry Quinney, provincial manager of fish and wildlife services for the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters. With me is Rachel Gagnon. Rachel is the program coordinator for the Ontario Invasive Plant Council, which is hosted by the

Environment committee  We address that briefly in the written presentation, but we'd be happy to provide more detailed comments on that specific topic, absolutely.

Environment committee  We sure do. We have a large number of individual members, surrounding the Great Lakes. If I may just take this opportunity, there are elements of the act, superior to others, that have been underutilized. I point you towards the stewardship components of the act that actually pr