Environment committee  One thing I said towards the end of my opening comments is that something we really need to see are some new narratives for climate change. The reason for that is, I think, that the lack of progress we're seeing is because we're stuck in old, wrong narratives. We have old-fashion

Environment committee  Yes. I think there should be consultation, definitely, but also engagement and communication. That can be a two-way street and it should be a two-way street. Some of my thoughts on that have to do with looking at how people behave and looking at societal trends and societal chan

Environment committee  I think it would not hurt to have the targets in the bill. A lot of the discussion about what they should be has already taken place. It's true that if we look at international panels and agreements, the targets are higher for Canada, and certainly I agree with the comment that t

Environment committee  Okay. In terms of hearing from scientists, yes, there should be an ongoing discussion. In the development of the plans for this bill, we need to have some more scenario planning and modelling that includes the—

Environment committee  These impacts have been extremely well reported and articulated in a number of reports that the IPCC has put out over the years. In Canada, there's virtually no ecosystem that has not already been affected by climate change over the past decades. I'm not going to give you a big l

Environment committee  Thank you to all of the members of the committee for this opportunity, and a special hello to MP Lloyd Longfield. My name is Madhur Anand. I am a professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Guelph. My own research has examined the impacts of climate c