Environment committee  It's about 240 million tonnes, I would think.

Environment committee  There is a basis for the number. A good foundation to understand the analytical base is the annual emissions trends report, which describes the measures in place through the provincial and federal governments. It looks at the drivers of emissions in the Canadian economy, and then

Environment committee  Certainly. I'd be happy to do that.

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As you may have seen, the initial round of funding for the various NCP funding programs has been approved, and contribution agreements are in place or are currently being negotiated. Most recently we announced 47 new projects, totalling $5 million, under

Environment committee  Thank you for the question. The international negotiating process is an ongoing one. As you may recall at Lima, under the Lima plan for action, we laid out the negotiating process that will lead to Paris, which includes a series of negotiating sessions, the first of which post-L

Environment committee  In the CCME process there's a deputies' committee that meets annually to prepare the final agenda. We met about two weeks ago in Toronto, and of course we ask ourselves that question. A minister's time is limited and the priority for this meeting will be on climate change—the wor

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. As the minister mentioned in remarks, we have a whole series of initiatives under way related to improving the health of the Great Lakes, including some important intergovernmental agreements in terms of the Canada-U.S. Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement a

Environment committee  I'll make two quick points. We did lead the development of a public-private partnership involving the municipality, the province, the company involved, and others to put in place an overall approach on the remediation. We're now tendering that process in order to proceed with the

Environment committee  We undertook an analytical process in order to define and to support decision-making by the government on the post-2020 target. As part of that process, I engaged with my counterparts in the provinces and territories to understand better the measures, the specific measures, that

Environment committee  Are you referring to the 2014—

Environment committee  Well, Mr. Chair, I would rather not get drawn into speculating on possible policy measures. I think, from an analytical standpoint, we know that deep GHG reductions require structural change and it is not in every case that cost-effective technology solutions are available. It is

Environment committee  March 31. Perhaps I'll ask our CFO to give you the precise numbers.

Environment committee  It may be a terminology question. “Lapse” is a commonly used term. Departments are permitted—and this is designed to actually incent good financial management—to carry forward a set amount. Amounts that exceed that set amount lapse and are returned to the fiscal framework, and he

Environment committee  Yes, of which $56 million was operating.

Environment committee  I would take you back to the modelling work we do. One of the reasons why I pause on giving you a specific number is that, again, as I mentioned, when you look at the analytical work—and Canada is I think advanced in this area and is consistent with work done in other advanced ju