Environment committee  The responsibility for deer is a responsibility of the provincial governments. However, we do have some responsibilities in government.

Environment committee  Thank you for your question. It's 17% of the land mass of Canada.

Environment committee  I'm finished.

Environment committee  Good morning. I'm pleased to be here today. I'm the assistant deputy minister of the Canadian Wildlife Service. The Canadian Wildlife Service is responsible for the department's nature agenda more broadly across the government. I'll go through our responsibilities and some of ou

Environment committee  Yes. Thank you for the question. In this year, we have just recently announced that there will be 28 indigenous projects funded initially, for a total of $5.7 million. This will fund their projects across the country. It will fund things like protecting sensitive areas and sensi

Environment committee  Thank you for the question, and indeed, the Canadian Wildlife Service is going to benefit from the $1.3 billion, although it's really important to note that a good part of that—half a billion dollars—is actually going to the Canada nature fund, which will allow funds to go out to

Environment committee  Yes, there are a few bits—and I don't have the exact amounts—programs through the indigenous guardians program, funding through the nature funds. It's small numbers of FTEs and some Gs and Cs funding to very specific pieces. It was really more of a cleanup, as a result of the app

Environment committee  Just to make sure that I understand, the question is on the extent to which we will be working with provinces—

Environment committee  The government is very committed to delivering on its responsibility under the Species at Risk Act. You will see, on the boreal caribou, that we are rolling out the responsibilities that we have. We are working with the provinces. Should we need to take further action under the a

Environment committee  The objective of a recovery strategy is actually to determine the needs of the species in terms of what is needed for it to recover, or to protect it. When we move into the action planning stage, which is part of the recovery process, that's when we start looking at the socio-eco

Environment committee  The SARPAL program is called the species at risk partnerships on agricultural lands, and it was really a pilot initiative. We are in the fifth year of five-year initial funding but it will be extended. Essentially it allows us to work with agricultural partners, whether they be

Environment committee  We are in the process of standing up the nature fund that is referred to in the budget, which is a $500-million investment over five years. We we will see that matched through partnerships with corporate entities, not-for-profits, and federal and provincial governments and organi

Environment committee  Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. I'm here today with Basile van Havre, director general of domestic and international biodiversity policy at the Canadian Wildlife Service. I will focus my remarks on the commissioner's report on conserving biodiversity. We w

Environment committee  Just to assure you Environment Canada and Canadian Wildlife Services are working hand in hand with Parks Canada on this project. If communities have proposals, I think we're ready to start receiving them and thinking about them. All the details of these programs aren't all worked

Environment committee  We still don't have all of those details laid out yet. There's still some work to do. I think we can get back to you, but there's still some work to do. This has just come out, and we have to work through what that allocation is.