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View John Carmichael Profile
CPC (ON)
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Minister Blaney and your colleagues, for joining us today as witnesses.
Minister Blaney, out of respect, we have received some disturbing news today. I wonder if you could perhaps give the committee a bit of an update on the reported shooting of an RCMP constable in Kamloops.
View Steven Blaney Profile
CPC (QC)
I thank the member for the question.
I was informed this morning that a front-line police officer from the RCMP in British Columbia was wounded. This happened while two RCMP members were performing a vehicle stop in Kamloops, British Columbia, at 2:45 this morning as part of an ongoing operation investigating organized crime. One member was shot. The RCMP members returned fire, but the suspect fled the scene and was later apprehended.
I just got confirmation from Mike Cabana that he's undergoing surgery, but at this point in time his condition is stable and we certainly hope
…that he will recover from his injuries as quickly as possible.
Maybe I can turn to Mike Cabana.
Mike Cabana
View Mike Cabana Profile
Mike Cabana
2014-12-03 15:50
Thank you, Minister. Actually, I don't have much, because I've been tied up in meetings. The last information I was provided was that he was seriously wounded and was undergoing surgery, but his life was not in danger.
View John Carmichael Profile
CPC (ON)
As one committee member I certainly don't want to overstep my bounds here, but our thoughts and prayers are certainly with him and his family for his full recovery.
They should know he's in our thoughts.
View Alex Atamanenko Profile
NDP (BC)
Can I ask you specifically about Kamloops? I know we had a discussion on Summerland with the other folks. Is it up to sufficient capacity? Do we need more researchers? Do we need more people to work on the grasslands initiative? I've been to the centre. It's quite an impressive centre. Is it working to capacity or are they in need of more scientists?
Kevin Boon
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Kevin Boon
2011-10-20 17:25
I would say right now they're definitely in need of more scientists, for the simple reason they're just gearing up. To be quite honest, we still aren't exactly sure of where the program is going and how it will be facilitated. It's just within the last few months that it's changed over to this way. They are being very good about consulting with industry, with the universities, with the Grasslands Conservation Council. There is a very distinct need in this area and a really good opportunity to utilize.... And here again, I talked about some of the differences in British Columbia. Because of our terrain, as you well know, we can't do some of the common practices that are done within the Prairies.
I also have to say the political atmosphere in British Columbia is perhaps a little more green--I'll put it that way. We're influenced by that society, so we aren't able to use herbicides and pesticides in the same manner. In the past at that research centre we were able to create and breed biobugs that went out. I believe it was knapweed that basically we were able to eliminate through bugs. It's that type of research that we're able to do. It's effective; it gets rid of it. It increases our production because we get rid of a noxious weed that is competing for our grasslands, but we do it in a manner that society is making us do it.
Down the road, those attitudes may have to change. If we've got three billion people to feed in the next 50 years or more, it goes back to that element of risk too.
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