Environment committee  I...perhaps not as well as you would like. The problems associated with a loss of biodiversity are direct. As I pointed out in my presentation, the more pollinator species you have doing the work, the more crop yield and fruit set increase. You've heard of many other examples of

Environment committee  No, which is why I said that was a very interesting question. I am a professor of biodiversity and an evolutionary biologist. I just happen to have worked in some other countries.

Environment committee  I think my information is as good as your information, and that's what I read in the press.

Environment committee  Is any legislation perfect as written?

Environment committee  I think the answer to the question is in your question. Until it's fully implemented, I can't have an opinion about whether it's perfect or not. We have to see how it actually plays out on the ground over the medium term.

Environment committee  I am aware of it, yes.

Environment committee  That is the program that I'm encouraging you to implement wholesale, and as I've said before, after it has been properly implemented and we can see not just one or two examples, then we can start to have a discussion about what changes should be made.

Environment committee  I should clarify that the letter has been signed but not yet sent to the Prime Minister. I do have it in front of me. It was signed by approximately a thousand scientists across the country. The letter is openly available, but it hasn't been delivered yet. If I look through it v

Environment committee  I don't think I am the person most suited to answering that question among the people here today. I think you've heard very good discussion and good examples of the sorts of things that different levels of government can do. I think it's very important that the federal government

Environment committee  That is a very interesting question. Thank you for it. When I worked in other countries, Canada was seen as a leader in conservation. Brian Mulroney signed the Convention on Biological Diversity before anyone else, before any other OECD countries. We were very much at the forefr

Environment committee  That's a very interesting question. I think if there's a single species at risk, most of the time it points to there being something wrong with the habitat in which it lives. I think the idea of concentrating at the policy level on areas where there are many species at risk is no

Environment committee  You are well aware that there can be conflicts, and those have to be mediated. But we must bear in mind that those species would not be at risk, these two competing species, if we had managed the landscape properly to begin with. What I think is lost in some of these discussions

Environment committee  Yes, we are aware of these perceived conflicts between particular species and ourselves. We've seen that with bison, we've seen it with grizzly bears, and we've seen it with cougars on the east coast. We know the story.

Environment committee  Good morning. Climate change is the single largest threat to Canada's well-being over the medium term—I'd like to state that absolutely unequivocally. It also makes this deliberation and a national conservation plan very difficult, because we have to plan for the future. It's a

Environment committee  That's a fairly difficult question because you have to count backwards through all the timelines, but there should be hundreds.