Environment committee  We would be happy to.

Environment committee  That would certainly be something that would bear some thought.

Environment committee  We need to understand how if affects cities.

Environment committee  This is just coming out of my head right now.

Environment committee  I would echo what my director just said for a variety of reasons, but the big one is that we need to think about cities as important ecological areas themselves. More than half of the planet is urban now. This is our future and we need to make these cities work better.

Environment committee  I'll just pick up on some—

Environment committee  With respect to recommendations, there needs to be consistency and cohesiveness with respect to crediting incentives, infrastructure grants, and things that deal with compensation. The City of Calgary has its own compensation for wetland loss. It is about five times the provincia

Environment committee  Within the context of environmental change and dealing with change, this is clearly an issue of the best available science. We need science to understand this and to learn to predict. We have done some work in the Calgary region, for example. We know that we're going to be losi

Environment committee  Simply put, within a minute and a few seconds, the goal would be to consider cities to have vital ecological needs as well. You need to think about viable, sustainable, healthy ecosystems within the context of growing cities.

Environment committee  I like that phrase. I would say so.

Environment committee  Certainly. The imagine Calgary plan, which I mentioned it briefly in my talk, was based on a consultation. It was the biggest consultation with Calgarians that we had ever done. Some 18,000 citizens participated. It was very broad-based. It was based initially on the Melbourne su

Environment committee  Certainly. I'll talk specifically about the wetlands conservation plan just to keep within the time limits. You're right, in that we're projected to grow by about 28% in the next 20 years. Infrastructure and sustainability are big issues for us. We do know that if we build the ci

Environment committee  Certainly within the context of what we do in Calgary, we see a role for the provincial government. We work a lot with them in land use planning and those sorts of things. I would suggest that when you look at some of the broader targets that Canada may have, I'm thinking of our

Environment committee  Certainly. The quick answer is yes, we have done extensive inventory work. Calgary is a large city of 1.1 million people within a larger, more rural context of several municipalities. Regional planning is something that's being looked at, at the provincial level. The City of Ca

Environment committee  Thank you. For a bit of context, we manage about 9,000 hectares of parks within the city itself. Fully 50% of that is considered to be natural environment parks. Some of the signature parks within our system are places like Nose Hill, which is the largest urban natural area in