Environment committee  That's what I'm saying. Yes.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  That's a great question. We call the program ALUS.

Environment committee  It's an incentive-based program. I'll be very honest. We struggle with the program because it provides a level of compensation that exceeds any program we've delivered, and it's an ongoing form of compensation to the landowner for the societal good that's being derived from whate

Environment committee  Yes, certainly. Those projects you've mentioned are managed by federal and provincial partners. Conservation authorities, I have to be clear, are unique entities. We are mainly municipally driven, municipally funded, in terms of scale, very small scale, certainly from our provin

Environment committee  The Drainage Act could have a whole meeting on its own, I'll say. I'll skip right to the wetlands. At this point there should be no further draining of wetlands. In Ontario's land use planning policy, as Mr. Nixon has described, we have regulations in place that prevent developm

Environment committee  Mr. Chair, I am not familiar with the program. I apologize. Certainly we do work through the Ministry of Natural Resources for fisheries enhancement work, but that program specifically I am not familiar with.

Environment committee  That would be great.

Environment committee  I'm not familiar with the program but—

Environment committee  —from what you've said, absolutely.

Environment committee  It's a great question. I have to refer to the work of my colleagues and the work of even the International Joint Commission. This has been a big discussion recently. There are certain practices; voluntary incentive programs only go so far. There are practices that have a majo

Environment committee  No.

Environment committee  I don't think we're at that point. I don't think that's efficient or effective in the long run.

Environment committee  Again, our work is more local. I'm not as familiar with national and international. Absolutely, we're moving in that direction, but it has been 30-40 years of slow progress. Again, when I'm talking about stronger policies, if there's a requirement to participate in conservation f