Environment committee  Mr. Stetski.

Environment committee  That ends the data- or information-gathering for this brief study that we've done. I'd like to thank the departmental officials for the knowledge they've brought to the table and their openness to being here twice during this particular study. It's always a pleasure to see you,

Environment committee  Good afternoon, everyone. We'll get started. The purpose of today's meeting is to get a bit of an update on where we're at with protected areas and financing. We wanted to bring in departmental officials and hear about protected areas. I think for me one of the really exciting

Environment committee  Excellent. Thank you for those opening comments. I look forward to the discussion we'll have with you. We go now to Mr. Nadler, and his colleague, Mr. Murray, from Parks Canada, for opening comments.

Environment committee  Excellent. Thank you for those updates from the Parks Canada Agency. With that, we're going to get into our rounds of questions and answers. Each of our members will have up to six minutes. We'll go to Mr. Amos for the first set of questions.

Environment committee  We'll move over to Monsieur Godin.

Environment committee  Mr. Stetski, you have your six minutes.

Environment committee  Now we're going to move over to Mr. Fisher for his round of questions.

Environment committee  There you go. Monsieur Godin.

Environment committee  Ms. Dzerowicz, over to you.

Environment committee  Great. Thank you. We have six minutes for Mr. Aboultaif and Mr. Hoback. You can divide up the time however you like.

Environment committee  Excellent. Thank you. Mr. Bossio.

Environment committee  Thank you. Mr. Stetski, you have the final round of questions here. Your allotment is three minutes, but I've been fairly generous with the clock, so I'll take that same spirit with you. If you want to push the clock a bit, feel free to do so.

Environment committee  That's the end of your time, Mr. Stetski. You've gone a little beyond. That's excellent. I want to thank each of our guests here today, our departmental officials, for joining us and speaking so openly and clearly about some of the investments and initiatives you have under way.

Environment committee  Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to our environment and sustainable development committee. We are holding a bit of a special meeting today. There was a motion that our committee agreed to a couple of weeks ago: That the Committee schedule one meeting with witnesses to discu