Environment committee  Yes, that's correct.

Environment committee  Absolutely. Yes, every species is unique. For example, the presence of grazing cattle can help limit grasses that compete with native plants. They can have a positive impact—there's no doubt about that—for certain species under certain circumstances. Again, listing under SARA re

Environment committee  As my colleague mentioned, we're not climate scientists per se, so those sorts of questions are best addressed by people who specialize in those areas. As I also said, there are really only two places to affect the levels of carbon in the atmosphere. One is outputs and one is seq

Environment committee  I think part of the disconnect is in some ways semantic. I think when we talk about changes to SARA, what the scientific community is generally not in favour of is changes to the legislation itself. There's no evidence that we can find, in looking at the enactment, the enforcemen

Environment committee  For me that's a challenging question. I think in the short term we need an evidence-based policy to guide definitions of sustainability, definitions of impacts, assessment of impacts. So I would say it's strengthening and concentrating regulation and impact assessment such that i

Environment committee  Comment on whether I've been involved there? Not myself, no.

Environment committee  So I will clarify a couple of points.

Environment committee  I would have to clarify a couple of points there. The first is that COSEWIC does not determine how SARA is implemented. What COSEWIC's recommendation would do would be to define what constitutes the wildlife species and whether or not those aquaculture individuals can be separate

Environment committee  I would. One of the steps in SARA is to finalize action plans that describe the specific activities that we need to take to recover species. So far, for the close to 400 species that will require action plans, we have seven. So we have relatively little experience with how these

Environment committee  What I would add is that the devil is in the details. There's carbon output into the atmosphere, and there's carbon sequestration. So there are essentially two places in the process where we can have impact, and I'll go to an example that was previously mentioned in a question ab

Environment committee  Yes, that's correct.

Environment committee  Yes, I was.

Environment committee  Yes, he was.

Environment committee  No, he's not. He's no longer a member of the committee. Dr. Marty Leonard is the chair.

Environment committee  I'm not aware of specific recommendations for amendments that he would have made.