Environment committee  I'm not an expert, but it seems to me that you wouldn't have those emissions being immediately absorbed in the same year. You're talking about decades down the road, as the forest is regrowing. It kind of balances out over time.

Environment committee  The emissions that are being removed by the surrounding trees, if those emissions didn't exist.... I'm talking about that intense black. I mean, Alberta was covered in smoke for most of the summer this year. Again, I'm not an expert, but it seems to me that those emissions were n

Environment committee  If you had a strategy, let's say that in that year of 250 million tonnes—or if your year was 100 million tonnes or 150 million tonnes—you had a quick strike capability in terms of putting out forest fires that could limit it to 10 million tonnes or 25 million tonnes of emissions,

Environment committee  Thank you. Thank you to the witnesses for being here today. Sorry about the beginning part. I think that it's critically important that, if this place is going to function, we have to have clear conversations, clear debates about the things that matter to Canadians. When that d

Environment committee  Just for anyone reading the testimony here, what were our total emissions last year, just generally, broadly? I would expect someone would have that number.

Environment committee  I appreciate that you're going to shut my mike off now.

Environment committee  That sounds good.

Environment committee  Can we get a recorded vote, please? (Motion agreed to: yeas 5; nays 4)

Environment committee  I appreciate that. Can you tell me who's on the list?

Environment committee  I fear that as has happened in the past the Liberal member who is on the list will immediately move to stop the debate, thus blocking the appearance of the minister or even the invitation to the minister to come before committee. That tactic has been used in the past in this comm

Environment committee  Pardon...?

Environment committee  We can pass that motion right now unanimously if you want, Mr. Bossio. We can pass that motion unanimously if you want or we could bring it back for discussion. You'll remember that it was done in the spirit of working together.

Environment committee  I'm sorry. Mr. Bossio engaged in a conversation.

Environment committee  Okay, but I'm going to answer the question coming from the Liberal member. The motion was to have the minister appear. We had witnesses who had travelled across the country to be here, and there was a discussion about continuing that conversation, which hasn't happened yet. In

Environment committee  Or the motion.... Perhaps we can use the opportunity when she comes to discuss forestry, agriculture and waste to also, perhaps, address the supplementary estimates at that time, because it's quite clear that we're running a $20-billion deficit right now, and we have a governmen