Environment committee  I think this question came up a bit during the last session, with Nutrien. We work with a partnership collaborative in Ontario called ALUS, which is the acronym for Alternative Land Use Services. It's a fantastic program that is able to engage farmers and other partners directly

Environment committee  That's another great question. As I mentioned before, the health of the Great Lakes is increasingly driven by what is happening in the watershed and upstream. I think that, over the next 50 years, if we're really going to understand change and risks to the lakes, we're going to

Environment committee  It's a great question, and thank you for it. There are really two main mechanisms where that work happens, the first being the Boundary Waters Treaty from 1909. More recently, the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement from 1972 is really the framework that brings both federal go

Environment committee  We can drink the water, but when it's treated. There are high levels of nutrients in Lake Erie that are causing toxic algae blooms. There are 20 million pounds of plastic pollution in the Great Lakes; it's not just an oceans problem. We're still seeing restrictions on the type an

Environment committee  It's fair to say that over the last decade—and technology has certainly helped with this—we can do a much better job of identifying point sources of pollution and non-point sources of pollution. For point sources, we know it's end of pipe. We know where it's coming from. Non-poin

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. I'm pleased to be here today to offer some freshwater perspectives from the standpoint of the Great Lakes region. The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region, which is shared by the United States and Canada, comprises eight states—from

Finance committee  That's a good question. I don't think that issue has been talked about enough. My understanding is that the Canada-United States free trade agreement would not come into force if NAFTA were to be terminated, and that the default would be most favoured nation status through WTO ru

Finance committee  I think it's fair to say that if you're in business in the Great Lakes region and you have operations on both sides of the border, you're thinking about plans B and C. Three months ago I was probably more of an optimist about where we started, but I'm probably sitting at about 5

Finance committee  To support Robert's point, any public sector procurement of innovative technology has to become a policy and a practice. Industrialized economies like the United States are very much front and centre in helping de-risk R and D and commercialization by acting as both an investor i

Finance committee  I would say that it applies very equally to Mexico. I would be the first to say that most people have an outdated view of Mexico. Before I took on this job, I was the lead adviser for North America for the Privy Council Office, and it was astonishing to me how outdated people's v

Finance committee  I think it's positive news that they seem to have moved away from a border adjustment tax. That's a good thing. You never know in the U.S. system whether or not it will be brought back, but for now there's less talk of a border adjustment tax. In terms of domestic tax policy, ob

Finance committee  You'd like three points. That's a tough one.

Finance committee  In no order of preference or priority, as we move to that innovation economy and we are looking at the movement and storage of data, data localization is increasingly going to be an important issue for both the Canadian and the U.S. economies. I think we have to be open to unique

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. It's a very good question. When I talk about being mobile, I talk about it in three perspectives. One is mobility in Canada, and how we look at accreditation and certification of skilled labourers in Canada from province to province. That is an issue

Finance committee  Thank you, sir, and thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. As the record shows, my name is Mark Fisher. I'm the president and CEO of the Council of the Great Lakes Region. I'm also pleased to have with us today one of my board members, Rakesh Naidu, the COO of