Environment committee  The target that was identified at the most recent conference of the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity was 17% for terrestrial areas and 10% for marine areas. In terms of Canada's progress, we are at about 10% for the terrestrial areas and about 1% for marine-prote

Environment committee  Yes, certainly. One program I would draw the committee's attention to is a program we share with the United States and Mexico: the North American waterfowl management plan. It started in 1986. To date, in Canada alone, there are nearly 21 million acres of habitat that have been

Environment committee  Thank you for your question. Three certifications are required for the ecological gifts program. First is the ecological sensitivity. The second is if the recipient organization is qualified to receive the ecological gift. The third—and an important one—is fair market value. We

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  One example would be the North American Plant Protection Organization, which I believe my colleague mentioned on Tuesday. This organization is working together with respect to the risk assessment. It is important, if we are doing a risk assessment in Canada on a particular specie

Environment committee  I am going to venture out and say yes. It would depend on the modification, but I actually don't see impediments to adjusting what we do now. We have that flexibility.

Environment committee  The one that comes to mind right away, and I can't find it in my notes, is a potato cyst or potato nematode, I believe, that actually resulted in.... It was five or six years ago, so I need colleagues from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency who would have been on that particular

Environment committee  That's it. It was the potato wart, as you would know only too well, and I'm sure you know better than I that it closed export markets to the United States. That's one of the big risks around invasives. It's a good example--or a bad example.

Environment committee  I would beg your indulgence in getting back to you with a list of species that could be invasive to P.E.I. Are you thinking of established ones or potential new ones?

Environment committee  Not necessarily. We see instances of the introduction of invasive species where the pathway is bringing species invasive to both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. If it's a shared pathway it makes sense. There are other instances, such as with ballast water, that are uniquely a

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  That's correct. It flowed from the Convention on Biological Diversity. Canada adopted a Canadian biodiversity strategy in 1996. Invasive alien species was one of the priority areas identified by federal-provincial ministers in 2000, and that led to the adoption of the strategy in

Environment committee  Yes, it is.

Environment committee  Absolutely.

Environment committee  Globally, there is quite a bit of commonality with respect to the strategic thrust of what countries are attempting to do, the focus on pathways and prevention. The United States definitely has that as a priority. New Zealand, especially, is perhaps the most active country with r