Environment committee  Could we get Mr. Vaughan's speaking notes?

Environment committee  I think that's an idea well worth examining.

Environment committee  My question is, where do you go from here as a committee with regard to—

Environment committee  The one thing I would say is that building in both the mitigation and the adaptation parts is hugely important. If there's one neglected element to the climate change story, which I think is reflected in the documents that we have before us, including the progress report from 201

Environment committee  It's fascinating that the role on adaptation for climate change is actually NRCan's, and yet if you read the mandate letters of the ministers and you try to figure out who's really in charge of this whole-of-government strategy, it's not at all clear that we've captured it, at le

Environment committee  I really don't think I'm qualified to answer that in terms of giving you an answer about the kind of machinery that would work best for you. The one thing I would say is that I think we have to balance two things. One is the importance of getting decisions out rather than simply

Environment committee  As a political realist.... As you know, things haven't always gone too smoothly in committees during the last 10 years. I think that's fair to say. My objective was to create something, I won't say for the ages, but to survive changes of regime. Therefore, rather than dictating

Environment committee  It's good to be back.

Environment committee  No. One problem with five years is you'd be in different parliamentary cycles, for one thing. I think that if you did it too quickly there wouldn't be time to change or correct. I think three years is about right, but I suspect, and one could confirm in talking to Ms. Brand and t

Environment committee  They might pay attention.

Environment committee  Well, my understanding, and perhaps the commissioner knows better, or the department can confirm this, is that what it's turned out to mean in practice is about how they are they meeting the greening-of-government stuff within their own departments, not how the actions of their d

Environment committee  Yes, I did. I want to be clear that I wasn't arguing for a more decentralized model. That's what we have. I'm arguing for a more centralized model in the sense that there needs to be some place at the heart of government...and there are only three central agencies at the federa

Environment committee  One of the things that is potentially useful in getting people to pay attention at the director general level and up is that section 12 of the current act says: Performance-based contracts with the Government of Canada shall include provisions for meeting the applicable target

Environment committee  In short, it was more luck than good management or brilliant planning, but then luck is what you make of it. Because I had a private member's bill coming up, in 2007 I was approached by the David Suzuki Foundation and asked if I would sponsor a draft bill they had prepared to cre

Environment committee  Madam Chair, I'm delighted to return as a witness to this committee where I happily served as a member when I was in Parliament. I would also like to acknowledge the presence on the committee of my friend and former colleague, Nathan Cullen, with whom I had many adventures, some