Environment committee  I want to make a point. In our funding of NSERC grants, too often studies that have been undertaken by graduate students working on their theses have focused on things that really haven't achieved tangible results for what we need today. Too often in my 36-year career as a civ

Environment committee  I'm “franglais” but not—

Environment committee  I can't remember now.

Environment committee  I'll think about it, because right now I'm—

Environment committee  No translation happened, but the question has to do with invasive species, if I'm not mistaken.

Environment committee  There was no translation, but that's okay. The bottom line here is what's happening in the Great Lakes today. We have 184 new species that never existed before. We have some that are of urgent and pressing concern. We've already had our economies, especially the rural economi

Environment committee  If I might just give one example, there's a number of ALUS trials happening across Canada. ALUS means alternate land use services. Some members from out west would be familiar with them.

Environment committee  Yes. What these programs are doing.... Mostly, they started out in western Canada, with respect to duck production and wetland protection. There's a great trial happening in Norfolk County just south of your riding, where they are compensating agricultural producers to retire eno

Environment committee  It's all incorporated. It's all part of the whole process.

Environment committee  As I mentioned, in our case we have restored Manitoulin Island. You have to look at Manitoulin. It's a big slab of limestone about 160 kilometres in length, and it slopes southwards in a big, gradual slope. All sorts of cold-water streams emerge from it. We represent 30% of the O

Environment committee  I'll give the example of a study undertaken by the Washington, D.C. based Brookings Institution and more recently in partnership with the University of Toronto based Mowat Centre. They did an evaluation within the context of what's called the north coast initiative of the United

Environment committee  There were 46 councils across the province of Ontario. Most of them focused within a county basis. I happened to work on the eastern Georgian Bay and the Manitoulin councils. The cost including the salaries, office space, meals, and everything, of these full-time coordinators and

Environment committee  First of all, I want to quantify that I completed a career of 36-plus years with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources in 2011. The stewardship component of it is very basic. What it does is it pulls everybody together, and you have people within the community not only cont

Environment committee  Mr. Chair and members of the standing committee, my name is Bob Florean and I represent the Manitoulin Area Stewardship Council, otherwise known as the MASC, and the Manitoulin Streams Improvement Association, and our community stewardship partner groups. These councils are compo