Environment committee  --before it is tabled in the House. The environment commissioner will assess it and will therefore be able to comment, bringing that perspective that she or he has on the anticipated efficacy of this action. And that may go some way toward your concern.

Environment committee  Paragraph 8(2)(b) lists a panoply of tools that would be available to the government to help meet the targets. Are you saying in essence that there is an absence of a clear definition of EBM, or are we unable at this point to define what the parameters or EBM are in the specific

Environment committee  You mean the clause that says the departmental SDSs will feed into the bill?

Environment committee  You're absolutely right about the common objective. The other thing we've seen, however, is that the departmental SDSs were often driven by nothing more than a deputy minister's committee on the departmental SDSs. The committees changed and had a series of long, convoluted names.

Environment committee  I'll take a shot at that one first. The Canadian environmental sustainability indicators, also known as CESI--and I have a copy of the 2006 highlights here--are a start. It's a set of reports that I think are carried out by Statstics Canada, Environment Canada, and Health Canada

Environment committee  Thank you. I want to start by telling you how honoured and how excited I am about being here today to address this important piece of legislation. This bill is based on a model national sustainability act that the Suzuki Foundation released in December 2006. When Dr. Thomas Gun

Finance committee  We wouldn't have a problem with the removal of excise taxes that were initially earmarked for deficit reduction, but we would suggest that in order to protect the environment and the health of Canadians, a carbon content tax be reintroduced on fuels, tied to the level of carbon i

Finance committee  We feel that the tax ought to be designed with environmental protection in mind.

Finance committee  From what I've heard here today, it sounds quite useful and as though it would be quite helpful. I'm very pleased with the criteria for contaminants that Mr. Bradley was talking about, the reduction of NOx and of the particulate matter. The give and take between rail and truck

Finance committee  I'm setting out why we think putting a price on carbon is important for reducing our greenhouse gas emissions. By the same token, we heard Mr. Bradley today say that he'd like to remove a tax from diesel. So to some extent, we don't see eye to eye on all issues. But on those iss

Finance committee  I take your point.

Finance committee  Yes, Mr. Mulcair, the absence of a common sustainable development strategy nationally is an impediment to making progress on a number of environmental fronts. Canada promised at an international forum in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, and at the World Summit on Sustainable Development i

Finance committee  I haven't formulated an opinion on that. The foundation may put out a press release around that, but I don't have an opinion on that, Mr. McCallum.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to the members of the committee for inviting me here today. The belief that there is a trade-off between the environment and the economy still exists in some quarters, but this belief is in steady decline. Instead, there is a growing realizatio

Finance committee  That's what we've been saying in connection with the information we've heard about this legislation. The Canadian Environmental Protection Act, CEPA, has all the tools necessary in the tool kit for the government to act right now to reduce pollution.