Environment committee  Would it be possible to repeat the question?

Environment committee  The short answer to your question is "yes." Being more transparent in all circumstances is a good approach, but accountability mustn't be limited to transparency. To guarantee as much transparency as possible, we'd like to see the advisory committee's opinions systematically mad

Environment committee  We will be sharing our time, Mr. Chair.

Environment committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and distinguished members of the committee. My name is Marc-André Viau, and I am the director of government relations at Équiterre. I will be sharing my time with my colleague, Émile Boisseau-Bouvier, who is our climate policy analyst. First, I would l

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thanks to all the committee members.

Agriculture committee  My colleague from Farmers for Climate Solutions could speak to you for hours about ways of enhancing innovation programs and energy-efficiency measures. If you were to ask her again to discuss these issues, she'd be glad to answer them.

Agriculture committee  I'm sure that she could. It's definitely a good idea to be less dependent, but producers will always be dependent on government assistance when there are extreme weather events or climate crises, to be able to restart their businesses.

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  Thank you for your question, Mr. Steinley. This information was provided by the respective provincial governments, and sent to the federal government. It is therefore public data.

Agriculture committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Perron. Thank you for your question. It's true that some alternatives are not viable at the moment. In Quebec, for example, electrifying some farms means extending the three-phase network, and that's extremely expensive. If we were to ask the producers and fa

Agriculture committee  Your comment, like the study of this bill, is very apt. I repeat, the problem is a real one. As there is no alternative, what are we to do? You mentioned the time span, which is precisely what is missing from this bill. There is no discussion of the time span. There is an exemp

Agriculture committee  As I was saying a short while ago, any proposal to weaken carbon pricing is related to an equally important issue, because there are significant impacts on farming. Any mechanism that would affect this pricing would, we believe, be problematic. Nevertheless, it would be worthwhi

Agriculture committee  As I mentioned, we are aware of this reality. That's why we're saying that the solution being considered by the government in the budget, which will probably go through before this bill is passed, is a more viable solution in our view because it continues to put a price on carbon

Agriculture committee  I don't know why you're telling me that we don't want to give farmers a break, given that we just said the preferred option is the one put forward by the government and upheld by the Supreme Court, which means that meaning that while carbon pricing remains in place, farmers are c

Agriculture committee  I'll take the question. We are speaking with farmers in all parts of the country about several of our plans.