Shannon Miedema

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thanks so much to all the witnesses. I know that none of us would be here if it weren't for all of the hard work of our bureaucracy. As a former local government bureaucrat, I very much appreciate everything you do. I'd like to talk a bit about the Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes park, which is adjacent to my riding of Halifax. I'm a very strong supporter of parks. I also [more]

We have a backlog of work in this committee. We saw how slowly things went on Tuesday this week, and we have a lot of priority work already planned and scheduled. I think we need to triage what is critically important here. The minister herself said that she's meeting Friday with the net-zero advisory board. I just need to clarify that the size of the board has not diminished; there are just [more]

That's not a point of order.

Inaudible—Editor [] invent filibustering, Mr. Leslie? I don't know. When you represent a coastal riding, as many of my colleagues know, even across the table, you're not able to treat climate change as a theoretical debate or a distant future problem. The environment drives our economy and shapes our culture, and it increasingly threatens rural, urban, coastal and central communities alike [more]

Every hour spent relitigating settled ground is an hour not spent helping communities prepare for the next wildfire, the next flood or the next storm. When politicians use climate policy as a political football, it's Canadians who pay the price. It's farmers who lose their crops, it's families who are losing their homes to wildfires and it's small business owners who can't afford the rising [more]

Thank you very much. Good morning, Minister. Thank you for being here. As a reminder to colleagues, if we don't spend money to invest in climate action, then we're going to be in a more expensive and worse situation with more and more wildfires going forward, so I think it's really important that we remember that and invest now to save later. I'm really interested in this replacement of the [more]

On a point of clarification, if it's a friendly amendment, do we still go through the process of voting on it? The Chair: Yes. Shannon Miedema: Okay, then I propose the amendment of changing, in both paragraph 2 and paragraph 3, the number of days from 30 to 45.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have deep respect for the net-zero advisory body, and I happen to know Ms. Abreu very well. Similar to my comments earlier this week, if we were going to invite two former members of the board, why would we not also invite some current members of the board to get a more fulsome picture? However, I'm going to talk now about not just being an MP but also being a [more]

In Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, there's a former military housing complex called Shannon Park. We've heard about it a lot. It was chosen recently as one of the first sites for Build Canada Homes, which is really exciting. A thousand new affordable homes are going to be constructed. Can you talk about how remediation projects through this program will help land redevelopment for housing uses, as we [more]

That sounds like great news. In the estimates, there is also a transfer from Natural Resources Canada to ECCC for the federal contaminated sites action plan. I spent the early days of my career cleaning up spills from old buried oil tanks in Nova Scotia, so I'd like to talk a bit about this. Can you give some context to the committee on this action plan and how it's going to help us to manage [more]

Was that co-operation agreement signed with Nova Scotia, or is it still to be signed?