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Bryan Gilvesy
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Bryan Gilvesy
2021-06-08 15:58
One of the things that farmers have told us in the design of our program is that we need to be voluntary. That means that we operate in a space that is neither a regulatory one nor a legal one. Our farmers' actions are operating in an additional nature. In other words, they're providing environmental services over and above what any regulation or compliance might require.
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Lib. (NS)
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2021-06-08 16:00
Okay.
I want to get into verification. When I have conversations with stakeholders across the country, that becomes a big piece. Obviously, your company is in that space. I presume there are others who might also be in that realm in the private sector.
Do you see it as government's role to play a helping hand with farmers, or is this something that the private sector can take a leading role in, in terms of the verification of farmers' meeting some of these protocols, to take advantage of these opportunities?
Wade Barnes
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Wade Barnes
2021-06-08 16:00
We've had experience in both the regulatory market in Alberta and now the voluntary market. In both cases, you need an independent verifier in order to ensure that these credits are credible.
Government can play a role to ensure that a third party is verifying it. That would be helpful when it comes to even corporate clients buying those offsets and having some governance around that.
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Lib. (NS)
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2021-06-08 16:01
Mr. Barnes, beyond the regulatory approach of actually auditing the pieces, it's the tools, on farm, for farmers to be able to illustrate some of this work that you're talking about.
I hear you on the regulatory piece, but in terms of the actual tools on farm, is that best delivered by private companies like yours that can help digitize some of this, or does government have a role in incentivizing that behaviour?
Wade Barnes
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Wade Barnes
2021-06-08 16:01
It depends on how you look at it. One, the investment on the farm, to be able to digitalize that, to get that data so that data is verifiable, is critical and Canada can play a huge role in that.
The question is that our friends south of the border are essentially using crop insurance as a way to incentivize farmers to implement those practices.
Does government have a role to play? Possibly. If you want to speed up the digitalization at the farm level, it could. The other side of it is to not get in the road of a transaction between a farmer and a corporate client to create value, because they'll make those investments on their own.
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Lib. (ON)
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2021-06-07 11:36
Very quickly on the policy in Scandinavia, are there any lessons to be learned of how they got to 20%?
Mark Jaccard
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Mark Jaccard
2021-06-07 11:36
Oh, yes. They have a very large carbon tax, but they have also picked certain sectors as well. Government has said, with intercity busing, that they're going to help make sure that they have E85 produced for those buses, and those are the ones they're going to pick as their fleet.
It's a combination, as I say, of government being directive, even in its investments and choices, and they have regulations as well, so regulations and pricing. It's the basic formula that we know. At least in Canada federally and in British Columbia, where I'm from, and in Quebec, we're doing those kinds of things.
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Lib. (ON)
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2021-06-07 12:16
Thank you. I don't have much time. I apologize.
You mentioned increasing carbon pricing. Mr. Jaccard talked a bit about that.
Mr. Jaccard, I probably have about a minute or so left. When you talk about regulation, pricing, policies and moving forward. what would be your recommendations to this committee and to the federal government? Let's say you're the minister of finance and you're preparing the budget for 2022. What would be your recommendations to this committee on how to meet our targets?
Mark Jaccard
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Mark Jaccard
2021-06-07 12:17
I would offer to the government the suggestion of a rising carbon price or regulations of the kind, if you look through my testimony, that I've been talking about. They dominate in California. Eighty-five per cent of their policies involve the kind of regulations I was talking about.
I'm indifferent. You can do regulations that are about as efficient as carbon pricing. It's fine to be indifferent to that, but you do need to regulate or have a rising price. Otherwise, fossil fuels are wonderful. They'll destroy the planet but they provide fairly high-quality energy. Also, their price is going to fall as we switch away from them. They're going to get even cheaper, so you have to have the regulations in pricing.
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CPC (AB)
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2021-06-07 11:11
Wow, what a ridiculous and partisan evasion on your part. What I would suggest is that if you hadn't spent months and months figuring out how to regulate Canadians' freedom of expression in their Facebook, Twitter and social media posts, maybe you would have had time to do a little work on this crucial issue.
The facts you read out are correct, of course, and deeply disturbing. Let me see if you have any answers at all on the legislation that you say is necessary for regulating online harm.
In terms of this regulator, what rules is it actually going to enforce, will it be the CRTC and what enforcement mechanisms will be in place?
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Lib. (QC)
Obviously, I'm here to talk about the objective of the legislation. Since it hasn't been tabled, I can't go into detail about it. However, once the legislation has been tabled, I would be happy to come before this committee again and testify as to the details and mechanics of said legislation.
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CPC (AB)
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2021-06-07 11:12
I think you have spoken about the concept of having a 24-hour takedown rule, so that once it has been notified that material is there, there would be a provision for that. I think that's a good idea. Of course, the trouble is that when child sexual abuse material or non-consensual images have been up for even 24 hours, they can have hundreds or thousands of viewers—millions in the case of Pornhub and MindGeek. We've heard from victims that explicit images of them were online for three years before they found out. In the case of Serena Fleites, hers was shared and downloaded all over her school before she knew. Then she got into a never-ending back and forth to try to get the platforms to be accountable and to take down the materials.
Can you explain or enlighten us about what prevention mechanisms might actually be in place?
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Lib. (QC)
This is a very good question. My office and my department have spoken as well with victims and victims' organizations. What we want to do with this legislation is to really shift the challenge for victims of having to try to get these images taken down—if we're referring to images that we would find on Pornhub, for example. We're trying to shift the burden of doing this from the individual to the state. It would be up to the Government of Canada, through a regulator, to do that, as it is in other countries, such as Australia, with their e-safety commissioner.
That's the goal we're pursuing with the tabling of this legislation. You are correct; we are also working to ensure that not only are the images taken down but they are removed from websites or associate websites to prevent, for example, the download of such images. They're not going to be downloaded and uploaded and downloaded and uploaded, as we've seen in many cases.
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you, Chair, and good morning to everybody. It's nice to be here this Monday morning, and again, welcome, Minister. It's great to see you here today. Thank you for all the hard work that you and your team are undertaking for all Canadians.
Minister, the first thing I would like to inquire about is the following. In mid-January, the Canadian Race Relations Foundation conducted a survey on Canadians' perceptions and recommendations on the spread of hate speech and racism on social media platforms. The survey shows that racialized groups are three times more likely to be exposed to or targeted by violence on social media. The proliferation of such content can result in hate crimes, which have gone up seven per cent this year across the country. These numbers have resonated painfully with our own recent history. Just four years ago, six people were murdered as they gathered for the evening prayer at the Grand Mosque in Quebec City. Islamophobia and xenophobia motivated this act. We learned shortly after that the perpetrator was radicalized through social media.
People here in Canada are harmed and victimized by hateful, violent, extremist, terrorist and radicalizing content. The online environment amplifies and spreads hateful messages against minority communities and the disenfranchised in ways we have never seen before. It's actually quite terrifying, to be honest.
Given that creating new regulations for social media platforms is in your mandate letter, and you mentioned you would bring legislation forward soon, could you provide us with an update on the essential work you are doing to protect Canadians online?
Thank you, Minister.
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Lib. (QC)
As I said, we have been hard at work for more than a year to prepare this legislation. We've held consultations with, as I said, in my case, more than 140 organizations. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice also held some consultations on some of the more legal aspects of the legislation and issues pertaining to the Criminal Code.
It is a complex issue. There are only a handful of countries in the world that have introduced legislation to do that, namely France and Germany; I spoke earlier about Australia, and the United Kingdom tabled a white paper on this just this past December. I was on the phone recently with the heritage minister in the U.K. to discuss that.
It is a complex issue, but nonetheless an issue we want to tackle. You referred to the 24-hour takedown notion, which is, in fact, in the mandate letter the Prime Minister gave to me at the beginning of the mandate. It's a more novel element; very few countries are doing that. The Australians are just introducing this in their legislation. We want to ensure that we find this right balance, and that's what we're working towards. It is still my intention to introduce the legislation in the very near future, but let me give you, perhaps, one other example of how online hate affects Canadians, and more specifically, indigenous people in this country.
I want to give you two quick examples, if I may. In 2018, two women in Flin Flon, Manitoba were charged with uttering threats and inciting hatred after posting a photo of a vandalized car, saying that indigenous people would be killed and calling for a “shoot an Indian day”. In 2020, two known nationalist groups called the Proud Boys and the Sons of Odin used social media to threaten and attack members of the Wet'suwet'en community during the pipeline protest. In fact, data from Statistics Canada show that police-reported hate crimes against indigenous people are on the rise. Between 2016 and 2018, incidents targeting first nations, Métis and Inuit communities rose by 17% during those two years alone.
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