Environment committee  Before you go on to that point.... You say that north of a certain point you just let them go, if they go. I imagine there is a natural impact of fires, and the forest will regenerate and all of those things. However, if you take into account the greenhouse gas emissions caused

Environment committee  Karel talked about being smart. I'm an Alberta member of Parliament and when I think about what we're talking about there, management-wise, it's going to take some money to make investments to develop the innovation to tackle some of these big issues. Forest firefighting costs mo

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Before we start this, I have a quick point of order question for the chair. When we invited the minister to come on supplementaries, did we offer up this day? Was this one of the days we offered up?

Environment committee  So she could have come today. I notice that, at this very moment, Seamus O'Regan is appearing before the veterans committee, and Carla Qualtrough is appearing before the government operations committee.

Environment committee  I'm asking on a point of order, just because I want to be clear on what days we.... The minister hasn't appeared. We had Minister Petitpas Taylor appear this morning at the health committee. I just want to get some clarity about what opportunities were offered, because the minist

Environment committee  But this was the day that was—

Environment committee  Okay. There are these three meetings happening today where ministers are appearing on the estimates. For the committee to consider, maybe we want to broaden and extend the opportunity for her to come and at least talk about her estimates, even if we're not voting on them, at some

Environment committee  On the specific subject matter, it was fantastic listening to everybody here. Mr. Thurlow, I imagine you will be back again soon, since we're doing a plastics study next. It will be very interesting to—

Environment committee  You might as well recycle your speech. You might as well just bring it back again, and you will be able to use it again. On the issue of wood, I'm always interested, just in general, in the issue of our forests as a carbon sink. We've talked about the fact that a third of our gr

Environment committee  I'd like a recorded vote. (Motion negatived: nays 5; yeas 4)

Environment committee  Okay.

Environment committee  I want to make sure that we have time to vote. With that, I will cede the floor to Mr. Bossio.

Environment committee  Darren says they'll never catch us. The interesting thing about it is we didn't actually promise not to do it. It was a very clear promise on your side though. I am just reading again from the Prime Minister's words. This one is particularly interesting in the context of the con

Environment committee  I'm sorry; I thought Bill C-69 was a part of the supplementary estimates. It has everything to do with pipelines, right?

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'd love to get some indication from somebody across the way that they're going to support this invitation. Then we can move on as a committee. No, I'm not seeing anything still, so I'll continue. This is of huge interest in my constituency. For those o