Environment committee  As I was saying earlier, it would be giving municipalities or RCMs as examples showing them how they could apply biodiversity policies regionally, for example. The government could also provide experts, given that usually neither municipalities nor RCMs have the money to hire bio

Environment committee  Yes, there are different funds. I don't know all of them, but minimal programs could be created. For example, in Quebec, there are organizations that are responsible for watersheds, but there could be an organization to coordinate the different environment divisions of the three

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  There is a list of bodies of water, and some are more protected than others. I don't see how we can insure good protection if there is that kind of list. Regarding the section, people need to apply the regulations. Following the cuts at Fisheries and Oceans Canada, I think it is

Environment committee  In that case, I don't understand. We are talking about changes to the list at Fisheries and Oceans Canada. What is the distinction then?

Environment committee  That would be good.

Environment committee  Certainly; if you do not have a picture of the situation, you cannot ensure scientific follow-up of the evolution of this situation, thanks to the indicators I referred to earlier on.

Environment committee  These changes will effectively be damaging to all the waterways. There are already very few stakeholders responsible for enforcing laws and regulations, and since citizens are not aware of the procedure to follow, they will not be able to lay complaints in that respect. There wil

Environment committee  Most certainly. The Fisheries Act was one of the most important statutes, at least for Quebec.

Environment committee  If there was habitat degradation, we could complain to Fisheries and Oceans Canada, since certain powers had been delegated to the Department of Natural Resources of Quebec. We could make a complaint so that the party having committed the offence could be sued.

Environment committee  Over the last year, we adapted our financial year to correspond with the government's, the government being our main source of funding. Our fiscal year and our biodiversity projects both begin in the spring in April, since that is when we must do our floristic inventory. Last ye

Environment committee  We cannot do that. To request a long-term subsidy, you need guaranteed funding from another funder. For example, if we were to ask the federal government for 50% funding, we would have to find the other 50% somewhere else. We do not have statutory funding such as the funding rec

Environment committee  We are in touch with the UPA and environment agri-environmental groups, among others. They are open, but it is clear that for farmers respecting regulations on the shoreline, for instance, whereby they are not to seed a one to three-metre-width strip along the waterline, represen

Environment committee  For instance, we could set a percentage for reducing degradation due to the fact that from year to year we lose part of our wetlands. There are also a number of species at risk every year. There needs to be an indicator established to reduce this number. The same principle could

Environment committee  To my knowledge, there are no environmental committees. However there are agri-environmental clubs, that are the environmental equivalent to them. However, I am not sure they take into consideration the opinions of other stakeholders, given the fact that they represent their unio