Environment committee  Could I finish with an invitation?

Environment committee  To the Manitoba members here, we're having a reception with the Boreal Initiative and Boreal Leadership Council in Winnipeg in a couple of weeks. Mr. Sopuck, I would invite you to come and speak with them about municipalities. We'd really welcome that. Thank you.

Environment committee  There are great examples. The key ingredients, really, are having the right parties at the table and having consistent financial resources available. We see that kind of rolling up and rolling back, which is one of the absolute keys, and then government being there ready to imple

Environment committee  Yes, absolutely. I'll give the example of the caribou recovery strategy that was developed by Environment Canada. They did a good job, and it was a very challenging task to attempt to incorporate some traditional knowledge in what they came up with. They had a credible outreach

Environment committee  Sure. There are emerging models, and then there are models that are now being implemented. They range from the Innu Nation in Newfoundland, working together in Labrador, to setting the table for planning outcomes in Quebec where they have the policy approach called Plan Nord. On

Environment committee  It is. As I mentioned, there were leaders who were feeling there had to be another way and actually wanted to test the model. Could a broadly based, sector-based approach work in a landscape that is so vast? It really was a major experiment.

Environment committee  Let me use a live example. I don't mean to keep coming back to Ontario, but I refer to the Ring of Fire because it's coming on stream. What do we need? We need land use planning and the province has committed to that. We need to financially support that, which is a challenge. We

Environment committee  Yes, and we're not saying never to do that, but right now we're at a very formational time in terms of being able to land solutions.

Environment committee  Sure, thank you for the question. The partnership arose because there were increasing conflicts, so in essence that was a driver for all the parties around that initial table, to explore whether they could work together way before the framework came along, which was our consensu

Environment committee  First of all, I want to say that fisheries is not my area of expertise. The last thing I want to do is comment on something on which I'm not qualified. In terms of how we move forward, Canada is a federation. It's a combination of federal, provincial, regional, municipal regimes

Environment committee  Just briefly, I would say that what's vitally important is to ensure that whatever assessments are done with provinces are the right solutions—important now more than ever.

Environment committee  Support could go directly to the provinces, but more importantly what we recommend is that the support go to those processes, where provinces, first nations and others are at the table working together. That would be the prerequisite for support. Because if you don't have that pa

Environment committee  Thank you very much. They have advanced significantly. For instance, in the provinces, several provinces have stepped forward to really embrace the vision of advancing, with a stewardship model, the goals to sustainably develop approximately half of the landscape, and to look at

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  Yes, what we're saying there is that we need time. For instance, a number of provinces are in very advanced stages of action planning for different species. There are collaborative tables under way. I'll give an example in Quebec. You know a number of the northern first nation le