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Environment committee Once again, I'm going to ask Dr. Miller to respond. He's the one who's been doing the thinking on this on behalf of CPAWS. He has been doing a lot of thinking on this, so I'll ask Dr. Miller to respond.
June 17th, 2013Committee meeting
Alison Woodley
Environment committee We have not recommended any amendments at this point but we are flagging that the decisions to come will be critical ones. We'll be participating in that and looking to the Government of Canada and Parks Canada to make the decisions that are consistent with maintaining and restoring ecological integrity in Jasper.
June 17th, 2013Committee meeting
Alison Woodley
Environment committee Again, is it okay if I defer to Dr. Miller?
June 17th, 2013Committee meeting
Alison Woodley
Environment committee Thank you for that question. I'm suggesting the environmental gain is not determined by the lines on the map, but by the development and the activities that will flow from that change in the leasehold areas. This act changes the lines on the map. The next decisions that will happen will determine exactly what happens in that leasehold area.
June 17th, 2013Committee meeting
Alison Woodley
Environment committee Thank you, Ms. Duncan. Would it be possible to ask Chris Miller to respond? I'm happy to, but he's sitting there in Nova Scotia and well placed to respond as well.
June 17th, 2013Committee meeting
Alison Woodley
Environment committee Yes, we would.
June 17th, 2013Committee meeting
Alison Woodley
Environment committee Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Good evening. My name is Alison Woodley and I am the national director of the parks program for the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, or CPAWS. As Mr. Chairman mentioned, also joining us this evening from Nova Scotia is Dr. Chris Miller, who is CPAWS' national conservation biologist.
June 17th, 2013Committee meeting
Alison Woodley
Environment committee From an ecological perspective, an eco-regional approach would make a lot of sense. They need to be knitted together at various scales. A municipal plan needs to be nested within a regional plan, and it goes up from there. You can have various levels of connectivity too. At the municipal level, you might talk about these riparian areas and about making sure there are protected corridors at that scale.
April 23rd, 2013Committee meeting
Alison Woodley
Environment committee That's where land use planning is really critical, I think. It's landscape-scale planning, whether it's formal land use planning or conservation planning, but at the landscape scale. I did talk about how most of our protected areas are isolated islands, and that's a problem. We need the protected areas, but we need them connected together.
April 23rd, 2013Committee meeting
Alison Woodley
Environment committee Well, it depends where. For example, in the Northwest Territories, there are very impressive land use plans that have been developed by the Dehcho First Nations and the federal government. That's still in process and needs approval, but there has been a huge amount of work. In the Dehcho Region around land use planning, it builds in the core protected areas, the connections between them in making sure they're connected together, and the sustainable management of the landscape.
April 23rd, 2013Committee meeting
Alison Woodley
Environment committee I would defer the comments on the impact of the oil sands to my colleagues who are living on the ground there. I think they're the ones who are understanding the significant impacts and have presented their concerns and their recommendations today.
April 23rd, 2013Committee meeting
Alison Woodley
Environment committee Absolutely. There's a myriad of pressures on the boreal forest from multiple sectors. It's important that we look at all of these as we look at the impacts on the boreal forest and really put all efforts in play to protect our boreal forest. We have to look at all of those impacts, not only one.
April 23rd, 2013Committee meeting
Alison Woodley
Environment committee I think it's important to have. The safety net is important because it acts as a backstop to the patchwork of endangered species legislation that exists in the provinces and the territories. It enables the federal government to step in where the species are not being adequately protected at the provincial level.
April 23rd, 2013Committee meeting
Alison Woodley
Environment committee It needs to continue to be there as part of the framework of the federal Species at Risk Act, absolutely.
April 23rd, 2013Committee meeting
Alison Woodley
Environment committee It's largely to provide technical support and to enable the agreement.
April 23rd, 2013Committee meeting
Alison Woodley