Environment committee  Mr. Chairman, I'd be reluctant to talk about my meetings with stakeholders, but I have been meeting, sir, with a wide variety of stakeholders to touch on all areas of the work of the department. Of course, we are continuing to work on both air pollution and greenhouse gas regulat

Environment committee  If you give me a second here, I can....

Environment committee  I'm the fifth.

Environment committee  Yes, on several occasions.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  If you saw from our response to her report, we agreed with all of her recommendations.

Environment committee  I don't have it in front of me, but as I recall, she commented that, based on the evidence published by Environment Canada, we are not yet on track to meet our 2020 target. Again, I wouldn't want to misquote her.

Environment committee  It is Environment Canada that publishes, and has done so every year since 2011, the emissions outlook, which provides a very detailed analysis, based on our modelling framework, of the impacts of federal and provincial measures that are currently in place. The point of the analys

Environment committee  First of all, I don't know what.... I think you're right. I think air quality in the greater Toronto area is improving. I have heard that. I haven't seen the data on it. Of course, we do monitor that, and as you may know, we have been working for more than five years now, in par

Environment committee  It is my privilege to appear before you whenever it suits you.

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. It is my privilege to appear before you today, on behalf of the Minister of the Environment, to discuss the 2014-15 supplementary estimates (B) for Environment Canada. I have a brief statement to deliver, which will be followed by statements from our portf

Environment committee  Mr. Chair, under the program a portion is devoted to assessment. As we continue to assess contaminated sites, the liability changes. We of course continue to remediate sites. That leads to retirement of some of that liability, and we continue the assessment. It also can add to th

Environment committee  These are federal sites, yes.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  While we play a role in coordinating this program, Environment Canada itself has relatively few contaminated sites. Other departments have custody of a large number of sites. For example, Aboriginal Affairs has custody of the Giant mine. The money we are seeking here will support