Environment committee  Thank you very much. Certainly it is a challenging goal, not just for Canada. When we were in Japan, negotiating these various targets, all countries expressed the challenges within those aspirational goals.

Environment committee  Yes, agreed. Australia is one example.

Environment committee  For our part, we are placing quite an emphasis in terms of looking at our national marine conservation areas, working with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans on the marine protected areas. Lancaster Sound is one example of the progress, and the Southern Strait of Georgia Nati

Environment committee  It's called Operation Unplugged.

Environment committee  This will be a six-episode documentary that will be coming to television. This is done in partnership with GlassBox TV and VIA Rail. We have activities in the parks and historic sites themselves. I mentioned the GPS guide that's available in some of our parks. We also have activ

Environment committee  Let's look at youth engagement in some of our workshops on the Rouge Valley National Urban Park. In February, when we had this workshop in collaboration with the University of Toronto at Scarborough, it was a very exciting event. The youth were asked to tell us what they thought

Environment committee  Thank you very much for the question. This year has been a very busy one for Parks Canada in terms of park establishment. Members may recall that we achieved the land withdrawal for the protection of Nailicho, which is located on the northern part of Nahanni National Park Reserv

Environment committee  First of all, these overpasses and underpasses are extremely effective. When we installed these overpasses, we also installed cameras. When wildlife cross these various laneways, we have actual photos of grizzly bears, cougars, and elk that are using these overpasses and underpas

Environment committee  Given the data that we have right now, we have not seen any of those, but I think that may in fact be simply a lack of data rather than these events not occurring.

Environment committee  Certainly in the areas in southern Canada where habitat has been fragmented, there are huge opportunities for ecological restoration. As you mentioned, we have seen some of those successes of bringing back salmon to some of the streams in our national parks. The last time I was h

Environment committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I'd like to first of all thank the committee for inviting Parks Canada to speak about our role in the development of a national conservation plan. I would like to reinforce the comments Mr. Keenan has made regarding the value of a national approa

Environment committee  Similar to my colleague's response, I will have to obtain that information from the park itself and get back to the committee on that.

Environment committee  Thank you very much for the question. Looking at the issues such as the invasive alien species, which is a very good example of the challenges of managing an area such as a national park, given the large distribution and the potential impact of these invasive alien species, it's

Environment committee  There are several programs, and they vary by individual parks. For example, we do have in many of our national park locations volunteer organizations called friends of national parks. It's through these organizations that we organize different events within the parks, such as som

Environment committee  Another example would be one in Kejimkujik National Park, a national historic site in Nova Scotia. One of the invasive species identified in my colleague's presentation was the green crab, which is a European species that has been found in the waters in the Atlantic. The park bas