Environment committee  Thank you.

Environment committee  I think that my questions will be directed mostly to Mr. Chan. It's nice to hear that you're from my alma mater. I don't know if you studied there, but you're teaching there, I assume, and researching there. On the issue of efficient versus inefficient subsidies, you touched on

Environment committee  Mostly you're right. The commissioner pointed out that how you define efficient and inefficient is going to determine the degree to which government defends the subsidies it continues to provide for the fossil fuel industry. She rightly pointed out that if you don't have a proper

Environment committee  Thank you. I believe it was Mr. Kraus who referred to a continental approach. Was that you or was it Mr. Kerr—

Environment committee  —in one of the responses. We can have a parochial approach here and assume that Canada is an island unto itself and try to address our species challenges here. We can look at a global approach and maybe escape some accountability for what we're doing at home. However, you had m

Environment committee  All right. Ms. Gelfand, you have heard that they have accepted all of the recommendations. As far as you know, are they actually following through on the recommendations?

Environment committee  But you won't be around to do it.

Environment committee  I'm glad you're confident. I have one last question and it has to do with the subsidies, both the tax and non-tax fossil fuel subsidies. When I go door to door, I don't hear questions about this, quite frankly. It may be different in Julie's riding, but in my riding it's not....

Environment committee  Every country will be different. They will be analyzing inefficiency differently.

Environment committee  I agree.

Environment committee  Thank you, Commissioner. It's great to see you here again. I wish you well in the next season of your life, wherever that will take you.

Environment committee  What I have appreciated about you is your willingness to be frank. You don't pull any punches. I do note that you're surrounded by departmental officials and you're still pretty brutally honest in your comments.

Environment committee  I do want to get into that. The first issue I want to touch on is invasive species. This is not a new issue in Canada. We've had this issue for decades, yet from what I see in your report, on the face of it, if you look at your statement, it's pretty damning. DFO and CBSA “had

Environment committee  That's what I will do, then, because there's also an issue here of not enforcing, right? There's a lot of meat here—things that the department's going to have to fix, and fix quickly. I did hear the department suggest that they're just now getting to a point where they have the r

Environment committee  Thank you.