Past Session:

Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources

First Session, Forty-first Parliament, 2011-12-13

Chair: The Honourable RICHARD NEUFELD

Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Thursday April 18, 2013

Issue No. 41

First and second meetings on:

Bill S-15, An Act to amend the Canada National Parks Act and the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Resources Accord Implementation Act and to make consequential amendments to the
Canada Shipping Act, 2001

APPEARING

The Honourable Peter Kent, P.C., M.P., Minister of the Environment

WITNESSES

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS):

Alison Woodley, Director, National Conservation.

Government of Nova Scotia:

The Honourable Leonard Preyra, MLA, Minister of Communities, Culture and Heritage.

Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB):

Stuart Pinks, Chief Executive Officer (by video conference);

Timothy Brownlow, Acting Chair (by video conference).

Thursday April 18, 2013

Parks Canada:

Alan Latourelle, Chief Executive Officer;

Kevin McNamee, Director, Parks Establishment, Protected Areas Establishment and Conservation.

Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq Chiefs:

Gerard Julian, Co-Chair and Chief of Paqtnkek First Nation.

Mi'kmaq Rights Initiative:

Twila Gaudet, Consultation Liaison Officer.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Richard Neufeld, Chair

The Honourable Grant Mitchell, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Baker, P.C., *Cowan (or Tardif), Lang, *LeBreton, P.C. (or Carignan), MacDonald, Massicotte, Patterson, Ringuette, Seidman, Sibbeston, Unger, Wallace

* Ex officio members

(Quorum 4)

Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources