Environment committee  I think what we're seeing is the beginning of a process to protect areas that previously haven't been accessible. An example I would mention is the protected area strategy in the Northwest Territories, where development is beginning to happen, but in concert with development is a

Environment committee  The investment Environment Canada makes in its protected areas system is larger now than it was, say, 10 years ago, in my career. The funding to which you refer is driven by the level of service that we need to provide to people in the protected areas you're talking about. It is

Environment committee  I have to get my calculator out.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  It's the latter. There is definitely a desire to be involved in this work. There is a council called the Canadian Business and Biodiversity Council. This is a compendium of case studies, so it's not regulation-driven. It's companies wanting to do the right thing. I had a chance t

Environment committee  Yes, the council to which I referred maintains its own website, but then there are best management practices led by our federal government colleagues, as well as provincial-territorial ministries. They would have best management practices in their sectors. So the agriculture sect

Environment committee  For the other important part of thinking about climate change and adapting to it, I would use the word “planning”. What information do people really need? I think they need access to a really good plan to help them understand how best to use land. Parks, national wildlife areas

Environment committee  That's a decision made in Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, so I'm very hesitant to speculate on the decision-making. Conservation organizations know that some of those lands are important for conservation, and I understand that actively looking at the lands would be valuable fro

Environment committee  The best definition from a protected areas perspective—and there's much more to habitat conservation than protected areas. There is an international classification system adopted by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. I'm not going to go into the details. Ther

Environment committee  Yes. I will go back to the South of the Divide initiative. That's a multi-species approach, and I think as the habitat conservation plan is finalized and we see implementation, we'll see multiple species benefiting, because the plan is designed to maintain the full suite of habit

Environment committee  Yes, very quickly, just on habitat, groups don't come to us and speak specifically about climate change. I think people working locally recognize that habitat conservation is one of the key strategies to adapt. The federal government has other programs, which I'm not familiar wit

Environment committee  With respect to the first part of your question, I can respond with an example. We at Environment Canada have been working with our colleagues in the province of Saskatchewan, as well as with industry sectors, cattlemen's associations, and so on, in southwestern Saskatchewan, to

Environment committee  I was going to integrate it more and use the North American waterfowl management plan as an example, because that human dimension is at its heart. That plan, incidentally, was updated last year to address the hugely important human dimension part of conservation. How does that hu

Environment committee  With respect to your first question around the non-government organizations that are involved, I've mentioned a couple of the national ones. There are many. There are dozens and hundreds at that community scale that really make a difference in terms of delivering habitat conserva