Environment committee  Thank you. Thank you for being here today. My rural riding is in southeastern British Columbia. I have over a dozen lumber mills in my area. Ms. Lindsay, I have some questions about the industry and planning for climate change. There's a lot of concern in my riding about log

Environment committee  It would be nice at some point to see a climate change strategy or plan from the forestry industry in general on what might need to be done differently to accommodate climate change moving forward. Related to that, when a fire happens currently in an annual allowable cut, what

Environment committee  I understand that we're getting a little behind in our reforestation, partly due to the amount of fire we're seeing.

Environment committee  I might come back to that if I get another round. Mr. McNevin, you talked about the importance of restoring natural water cycles. I absolutely agree with you—I was a mayor, and also with the B.C. Ministry of Environment. How much co-operation are you getting from municipalities

Environment committee  I would just encourage you, going forward, to try to make every dollar election-proof, if you can, out of that $1.3 billion. Second, just quickly, on the role of the public in terms of the new protected areas, I wasn't 100% clear. Are the committees still there? Or are they no l

Environment committee  Thank you. I'll try to keep it to two questions. In my past lives, I've worked with national parks, Manitoba Parks, and BC Parks as a public servant under many different governments. I want to talk for a minute about the $1.3 billion; I was happy to work at getting signatures fr

Environment committee  Is that collectively with Parks Canada?

Environment committee  Excellent.

Environment committee  You say you're comfortable with the criteria. Was it drawn from the IUCN? I used to work with Manitoba Parks. I know where Shilo is for sure.

Environment committee  On target 1, is it both lands and marine proposals, or is it strictly land for this target 1 proposal that closed recently?

Environment committee  There were two groups set up to run proposals through. I guess that might be one way of putting it. One was a sort of NGO group, and the other was an indigenous group. How are those groups being used as part of establishing the 10% and 17%?

Environment committee  The other concern we had was whether staffing levels would keep up or expand along with the work. How are things happening with staffing in your organization?

Environment committee  Thank you. It's good to see several of you again. I appreciate the work you do every day. When we completed our report, there were a couple of things that we were wondering about. One was ultimately what might count towards the protected areas land. I'm wondering what kind of d

Environment committee  It's not an easy one to deal with, but it could be important for our long-term health.

Environment committee  I'm just reflecting on some of the quite disturbing testimony we heard from one of the scientists. It was about the fact there are plastics in our drinking water and in our waste water. As a former mayor, I'm always interested in municipal infrastructure and the cost of improvin