Environment committee  Chair, I would just add that in support of furthering our work under the chemicals management plan, which we do jointly with Health Canada, the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment has a water management committee of technical officials looking at it. They also looked

Environment committee  Thank you, Minister. I would note that the Canadian Forest Service at Natural Resources Canada has active research. They're measuring, monitoring, and modelling forest carbon sinks, and looking at the role of natural disturbances and the subsequent regeneration. That goes to bot

Environment committee  I was just going to note that forest carbon research is part of the core activity of the Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, and indeed, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada on the side of best practices for zero-till and, as the minister indicated, other carbon seques

Environment committee  I think for stored carbon in terms of wood construction at Natural Resources....

Environment committee  We do actually have a comprehensive model, as part of our national emissions inventory, pertaining to stored carbon. It's work that we undertake with other departments and agencies. We just released the most recent update a week or two ago. We have comprehensive models for forest

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning. I would like to start by thanking the Auditor General for the spring 2017 report and the recommendations provided to the department on fossil fuel subsidies. I welcome the opportunity to speak to these recommendations and the progress Envir

Environment committee  Building on what Minister McKenna noted, against the framework of the goals she noted, within the three-year individual departmental SD strategies, there is an opportunity to speak to specific concrete actions through which the goals and commitments the country has made, includin

Environment committee  Perhaps I can just say, at the outset of that, that we are engaging at all levels, from the work Paula does with officials at her level, up to my level, as deputy minister, working with my colleagues—

Environment committee  As Paula noted earlier, the cabinet directive applies to all ministers, and through them, to their officials. The Privy Council Office has overall oversight for implementation through memoranda to cabinet and other mechanisms. She spoke to the cross-link at several stages with th

Environment committee  To the specific point you were raising with regard to what is now called Public Services and Procurement Canada, it would address those considerations in terms of their procurement in greening government operations in the context of meeting the objectives of the environment in th

Environment committee  One of the elements in the purpose is respecting Canada's domestic and international obligations. As I noted, that then translates into the three-year government strategy and the individual departmental ones. For example, our obligations under the Paris agreement as manifested in

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  The pan-Canadian framework, which was agreed to by first ministers, does indeed include commitments that both the federal government and provinces and territories agreed to in terms of work to establish a retrofit code, which is then up to each individual province and territory t

Environment committee  That's not my understanding of the approach. Again, the approach is to work with the National Research Council and the federal, provincial and territorial community and stakeholders on establishing a retrofit code, which will then establish a floor for retrofits where they're don

Environment committee  The implementation of any change in a building code is up to the provinces and territories. But again, the focus is on establishing a code as a floor for energy efficiency improvements. Indeed, there was a commitment to develop a new code for new buildings, for example, by 2022 t