Environment committee  No. I just want to speak in favour of having the minister here as well.

Environment committee  Thank you. I am going to pass my six minutes back to Mr. Lake in a minute. Thank you for being here today. My first question will be for Agriculture. I have a bill, which is in the Senate, Bill C-281, to celebrate national local food day on the Friday before Thanksgiving ever

Environment committee  You said you provide funding through provinces to do this. Could you, therefore, you put in some requirements in terms of benefiting local growers when you're handing out money to the provinces?

Environment committee  All right. Turning to forestry, my colleague Richard Cannings from South Okanagan—West Kootenay has a bill before the Senate as well, Bill C-354 on the use of wood. It's asking government to do an analysis of the carbon footprints of structural materials. His initial emphasis, o

Environment committee  I want to turn to the Paris targets and forestry again. What do you see as the role of forests in terms of meeting Canada's Paris targets? I understand there might have been some changes in what's going to count and not count towards meeting that target. Could you address that fo

Environment committee  Along with that, I might add that we already did a protected area study, and we had several people before us who suggested we should be protecting 50% of our boreal forests moving forwards. If that becomes part of the conversation, that would be interesting.

Environment committee  I would love to offer my six minutes to Mr. Lake.

Environment committee  Thank you. I just want some clarification, Chair. Are we particularly speaking to the forestry, agriculture and waste component, or the larger study of Canada's leadership around climate change?

Environment committee  Then I'm very interested in having the minister come to talk about Canada's leadership in climate change in general, but if that's not what we're dealing with on this motion, I will wait.

Environment committee  Thank you. In my former life I was regional manager with the Ministry of Environment for southeastern British Columbia, responsible for provincial parks, fish and wildlife, and ecosystems. In that part of the world, grasslands and restoring grasslands was a major part of what w

Environment committee  Is there specific funding, though, if somebody wants to set up a bioenergy plant out in our rural ridings?

Environment committee  Was that the low-carbon economy fund?

Environment committee  Is that under the champion fund as well?

Environment committee  Thank you.

Environment committee  Six plus three is nine, but.... Sure, I'd like to continue, yes.