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 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  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  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