Environment committee  I'm interested in what the results are for monitoring. The example I used with at least one reporter was the level of contaminants. If I take flame retardants in Canada's north, for example—many folks know them as PBDEs, polybrominated diphenyl ethers—we have monitored them and t

Environment committee  Yes, indeed. We had to comply with a Treasury Board policy, a policy that had been developed between Treasury Board and the unions, on the manner in which we treat employees under these circumstances.

Environment committee  I don't have details about the budgets. The way the department has planned and budgeted changes, with different deputies and different assistant deputy ministers, we have found that it has been difficult, because the budgets for salaries were separated from the budgets for operat

Environment committee  To say we don't plan to merge two networks would not exactly be precise. We plan to continue to use both methods. Both methods are needed. Both methods will continue to be used. You can go to our website and see a map where we measure ozone. You will see that in most sites we'r

Environment committee  Thanks for the question. Indeed, the two methods are complementary and measure different things. The Brewer instrument is a land-based instrument. It sits on the ground and measures the total thickness of the ozone layer going up; while ozonesondes, which go up with a weather ba

Environment committee  Certainly. In a memo to the minister, absolutely, I indicated that the measurements are complementary and do not duplicate each other. That's in the context of each method of measurement. The Brewer instrument is required to validate or verify the information we get from satell

Environment committee  What I was referring to in the discussion was the number of staff affected. We were in the position whereby we sent letters to, I believe, 776 employees department-wide who were affected. All employees were advised that this did not mean they were surplus. It was clear that 776 e

Environment committee  Thank you very much, Chair. Thank you for inviting me to the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development to discuss Environment Canada's plans for ozone monitoring. With me today is Dr. Charles Lin, who holds a Ph.D. in meteorology from the Massachusetts Insti