Environment committee  I don't know. But I want to be clear that in the science and technology branch, in the atmospheric science and technology directorate, we will continue to have research scientists who understand and use both the Brewer and the ozonesonde. Neither method or the use of neither in

Environment committee  No, as I said regarding the three in the north, we've made a commitment that we'll stay. As for all of the others, we are not prepared to say because those discussions are happening now with the scientists.

Environment committee  The ones that I know about are Alert, Eureka, and Resolute.

Environment committee  There are no reductions to the monitoring—to the results—that Environment Canada needs to provide to meet our obligations to Canadians. How we provide those results is something that we're having discussions inside about how best to use the dollars we have available to us.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  With me is Dr. Cathy Banic, who is the director of air quality. She's saying that we don't. You can see in published literature that the use and production of what they call ozone-depleting substances decreased enormously following the Montreal Protocol.

Environment committee  We can. The issue is to always to watch what's happening, because science and technology are evolving, and industry is changing what chemicals we use. One of the responsibilities of my branch is the chemical management plan. It's a very positive program. We are looking at the sa

Environment committee  Currently, in the World Ozone and Ultraviolet Data Centre, we have two individuals overseen by two research scientists.

Environment committee  Again I don't have specific budget numbers for the data centre. I think we've had two technicians who have been really focused on data management. This is more in the IT/IM world rather than in the science world. In discussions within Environment Canada, my colleagues in the me

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  We are moving to a way of planning whereby we can identify who is working on what. As an example, if we look at some of the recent publications authored by scientists in Dr. Lin's shop, there are 11 authors or 13 authors. More and more, science is becoming a collaborative activit

Environment committee  This is pretty consistent with the level of people going back to 2006 or 2007.

Environment committee  Absolutely. As I said in my opening remarks, it was not unexpected by the scientists. Knowing what happened in Antarctica, they anticipated that this was possible in the Arctic. This past winter was the first time it was verified with scientific evidence that we had a hole. It wa

Environment committee  I don't know yet, and I know that Charles, working with his team, has not yet come to a conclusion about the number of sites that will remain. We have made a commitment to maintain the sites in Canada's far north. They were among the earliest sites established around the world.

Environment committee  I didn't say less monitoring. What I have said is that our focus is on the results, and we've been clear that we need to have scientifically valid results and need to meet our national and international obligations. It's clear from the science that we need to use these two method