Environment committee  That's a two-part question. I'll deal with the second part, as other witnesses have already talked about the unique contributions. I think there's the in-kind provision of goods. There's the provision of expertise. If we're talking of the forest sector, companies can have parti

Environment committee  Thank you again for your question. I would need to double-check the exact facts with respect to the wood turtle just in case it had changed status, but perhaps I could make a more general comment about the priority species for funding. The habitat stewardship program started wa

Environment committee  Thank you for your question. We have agreements that are for more than one year. In fact, one of the agreements that's been mentioned earlier, the Holcim project, is a three-year agreement. We would be limited by the nature of the approved funding within the national conservatio

Environment committee  We have projects that are annual. If the recipient would wish to have a second year of funding, that's absolutely possible. Equally, it's absolutely possible for that project proponent to apply for multi-year funding.

Environment committee  The program that Mr. Sopuck is referring to, the North American waterfowl management plan, started in 1986. To date in Canada we've invested about $2 billion in it—“we” being the partnership—securing about 8 million hectares of wetland and upland habitat, enhancing about 1.4 mill

Environment committee  Thank you. The eco-action program operates in the very same fashion as the programs I mentioned, which you just reiterated, the habitat stewardship program, and so on. Funding is encouraged through leverage. For example, the recipient, the non-government organization receiving

Environment committee  That's correct. In the programs that I mentioned, we operate at 50%, except for the aboriginal fund for species at risk. The reason for that is sometimes aboriginal organizations or communities don't have the wherewithal to provide that kind of financial assistance, so the in-kin

Environment committee  For the Earth Rangers contribution agreement, it's a $3 million—

Environment committee  My apologies, I misunderstood the question. The national conservation plan is a $252 million five-year investment. Of that, $100 million went to the natural areas conservation program. The primary recipient is the Nature Conservancy of Canada, although they partner with other n

Environment committee  Thank you. Good morning. It's a pleasure to be with you again this morning. Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today about private sector partnerships with not-for-profit organizations to undertake local environmental initiatives. My comments today will focus on wi

Environment committee  Yes, I think that our management tools and techniques need to recognize a broad suite of tools. Habitat will always be fundamentally important where we have populations that have had too much impact on their habitat and their populations are declining. As the boreal caribou recov

Environment committee  The program is designed to acquire what is referred to as a full or partial interest in the land. A full interest is purchase of the land itself, called fee-simple title. In other situations the land remains in private ownership. For example, for a rancher in prairie Canada who h

Environment committee  The result area related to biodiversity of wildlife and habitat is an increase in the department's budget. The $46 million that is part of the five-year funding of $252 million in fact is new money for enhanced outcomes in that result area. The only question that remains outsta

Environment committee  That's from the departmental perspective. Within the department, there are increases for certain—

Environment committee  Yes.