Environment committee  That's a very good question. I should start by saying my wife is an immigrant and my mother is an immigrant, so you can figure out that I'm pro-immigration on this. Different pathways.... I did a study for the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., last year, and decisi

Environment committee  It's a great concern to people who work in security agencies, both within the Government of Canada—the Canadian Security Intelligence Service—and in the United States and others. They see it as a threat multiplier, which is the language they use. It's that you already have econom

Environment committee  Yes, the increase in greenhouse gas emissions in Canada did essentially stop over the last year because, you're right, people did stay home and work closer to home, and industry was shut down. I don't think that's what's being advocated for here. I think what we're looking for i

Environment committee  If you look at Canada's greenhouse gas emissions over the last two decades, you'll see that the greatest public policy decision to reduce them was the Ontario government's decision to eliminate coal from its electrical generation plants. That, again, had the human health benefit

Environment committee  Yes, I love Guelph, Ontario, and enjoyed my time greatly at the university there. It's one of the greatest agricultural schools in the world as far as I'm concerned. Yes, I think we've been talking a lot about the economic impacts of what we need to do to move to a green econom

Environment committee  I would not want to venture too far into recommendations here, because I'm not a policy-maker; I'm not a government official. However, I would look to other pieces of federal legislation for what happens when government agencies fail to follow through on their obligations under t

Environment committee  I have a couple of thoughts. One is that it is a worst-case scenario. That is the case where we continue to essentially follow the trajectory we're on in terms of taking coal, oil and natural gas out of the ground as quickly as we can and burning it as quickly as we can. Hopefull

Environment committee  Take you very much. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen I'll be making my presentation in English but will be able to answer questions in French. Thank you. First of all, I would like to thank the committee and the committee members for this opportunity to address Bill C-12