Environment committee  The demand for goods and services produced by Canadian industries.

Environment committee  It could be demand for anything—all the goods and services purchased in Canada. Let me give you an example. We studied greenhouse gas emissions associated with total household demand. Through an analytical data base, we are able to say that Canadians spent $2 billion on goods and

Environment committee  As I explained to Mr. Bigras, it is basically Environment Canada that takes responsibility for collecting scientific data from provincial governments. We work with Environment Canada, which gives us access to those scientific data. However, we are not the ones collecting the data

Environment committee  Statistics Canada produces statistics across a whole lot of issues that are important to provinces and important to the federal government. The three you mentioned are relevant, but you could think of all of the economic statistics. You could think of.... Well, it's hard to think

Environment committee  I don't want to get anywhere close to commenting on the bill itself and whether we could support those particular indicators or any other set of indicators.

Environment committee  I think I've enumerated the work we're doing on environmental statistics. I hope members of the committee would be familiar with the kind of work we do in economic and social statistics. The final slide of our presentation emphasized the fact that Statistics Canada is ready to he

Environment committee  Well, maybe I'll answer the last question first. Would we be willing to look at something like the economic impacts of biofuels or the environmental impacts as best we could? If asked to do so, certainly we would. Within the limits of the statistics that we have at hand, we wou

Environment committee  I have not been asked to do so on that particular issue.

Environment committee  The requests come from a variety of stakeholders. There's no particular.... Most of them would come from stakeholders, but there are requests from elsewhere as well. In terms of how we work with Environment Canada, I think we work quite closely with Environment Canada in a whole

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Bigras. The answer to that depends on the statistical area concerned. In the case of social and economic statistics, there is clearly very close cooperation between the Institut de la statistique du Québec, or ISQ, and Statistics Canada. There is practically ongoi

Environment committee  Thank you for the invitation to speak to you today. We thought it would be useful to inform the committee about Statistics Canada's current work on environmental statistics accounts and indicators and also to give the committee some sense of Statistics Canada's role in the world

Environment committee  Just in response to Mr. Watson, the only data collection activity I know of that's mandated by CEPA is the NPRI. There are clear shortcomings in that particular data collection activity, so it would be, I think, a shame if this review of CEPA didn't look at the NPRI in some detai

Environment committee  Environmental statistics are very much in their infancy in comparison with most other domains of statistics. Economic and social statistics have been around for a hundred years. One of the things that we've achieved in the economic and social statistics to a much greater extent,

Environment committee  I have a comment in terms of what Mr. Smith is saying. It's very hard for us to study all the different possibilities of mixtures and combinations that can happen. From looking at some of the studies, we know there is something called “synergy”. One substance will have a cert

Environment committee  I'm sorry, I don't have any statistics for you. We know that we are finding estrogens in water. Part of the presence of estrogens in the water is from the synthetic hormones in birth control pills. One of the things Health Canada is working on is an environmental assessment reg