TrudeauLiberals cancel National Wetlands Conservation Fund

[Gone_Fishin]

Brutal. Just imagine how much good work $10.5 million could do for our natural environment.

https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-cl ... -fund.html

[Catsumi]

Obviously, the 10.5 million bucks was "needed" elsewhere more important than our diminishing wetlands.

[Queen K]

Brutal. Just imagine how much good work $10.5 million could do for our natural environment.

https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-cl ... -fund.html

Where is the link to the news story Gone_Fishin?

[Gone_Fishin]

Read the link. That's all that you should need to see that it's toast. Trudeau doesn't care about our environment, that's certain. Disgusting.

[Queen K]

Read the link. That's all that you should need to see that it's toast. Trudeau doesn't care about our environment, that's certain. Disgusting.

Oh sorry, I was looking for a news link.

Okay, under why I found this:

In order to ensure that Environment and Climate Change Canada continues to deliver on its priorities in the most efficient way possible, the department recently undertook a review of its Grants and Contributions programs. In 2018-2019, Environment and Climate Change Canada is reallocating some of its funds toward other key departmental priorities, including the recovery of species at risk.

[Queen K]

Are there other sources of government funding?

Yes. Other sources of funding are available for conserving and protecting wetlands. We encourage potential applicants to continue with their good work on wetland conservation through the use of other funding sources. You will find a list of potential funding options offered by Environment and Climate Change Canada.

And stamp money!

Stamps!

Further, we will continue to provide the revenue from the sale of the Canadian Wildlife Habitat Conservation stamp to Wildlife Habitat Canada to implement on the ground wetland conservation projects.

[Omnitheo]

GF continues his crusade against the liberals. Now we all know GF longs for the glory days of the conservatives and Stephen Harper where cuts and cancellations were made to the following environmental and research programs (but remember, people here will claim there was no “war on science” under Harper).

Environmental Emergency Response Program
Urban Wastewater Program
Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences
Smokestacks Emissions Monitoring Team
Hazardous Materials Information Review Commission
National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy
Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, Winnipeg Office
Municipal Water and Wastewater Survey
Environmental Protection Operations
Compliance Promotion Program
Action Plan on Clean Water
Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) (PEARL lost its $1.5 million annual budget when the government stopped funding the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Science (CFCAS) . In May 2013, the federal government announced the facility would get a $ 1 million a year grant for the next five years. But according to Professor Tom Duck, of Dalhousie University, with the loss of CFCAS, atmospheric and climate research will be funded at less than 70 per cent of the level it was funded at in 2006.)
Sustainable Water Management Division
Environmental Effects Monitoring Program
Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan
Chemicals Management Plan
Canadian Centre for Inland Waters
Clean Air Agenda
Air Quality Health Index
Species at Risk Program
Weather and Environmental Services
Substance and Waste Management
Ocean Contaminants & Marine Toxicology Program
Experimental Lakes Area (Under the Bill-38 the ELA was shut down. As of January 2014, the International Institute for Sustainable Development and the Ontario government are working out an agreement with the federal government to take over the facility.)
DFO Marine Science Libraries
Centre for Offshore Oil & Gas Energy Research
Kitsilano Coast Guard Station
St. Johns Marine Traffic Centre
St. Anthony’s Marine Traffic Centre
Conservation and Protection Office
Conservation and Protection Office (L’anse au Loup, NL)
Conservation and Protection Office (Trepassey, NL)
Conservation and Protection Office (Rigolet, NL)
Conservation and Protection Office (Burgeo, NL)
Conservation and Protection Office (Arnold’s Cove, NL)
Conservation and Protection Office (Baddeck, NS)
Conservation and Protection Office (Canso, NS)
Conservation and Protection Office (Sheet Harbour, NS)
Conservation and Protection Office (Woodstock, NB)
Conservation and Protection Office (Port Hood, NS)
Conservation and Protection Office (Wallace, NS)
Conservation and Protection Office (Kedgwick, NB)
Conservation and Protection Office (Montague, PEI)
Conservation and Protection Office (Inuvik, NT)
Conservation and Protection Office (Rankin Inlet, NU)
Conservation and Protection Office (Clearwater, BC)
Conservation and Protection Office (Comox, BC)
Conservation and Protection Office (Hazelton, BC)
Conservation and Protection Office (Quesnel, BC)
Conservation and Protection Office (Pender Harbour, BC)
Atlantic Lobster Sustainability Measures Program
Species-at-Risk Program
Habitat Management Program
DFO Institute of Ocean Sciences (Sidney, BC)
Freshwater Institute - Winnipeg
Oil Spill Counter-Measures Team
Maurice-Lamontagne Institute’s French language library
Canadian Coast Guard Management
Water Pollution Research Lab (Sidney, BC)
Water Pollution Research Lab (Winnipeg, MB)
Water Pollution Research Lab (Burlington, ON)
Water Pollution Research Lab (Mont-Joli, QC)
Water Pollution Research Lab (Moncton, NB)
Water Pollution Research Lab (Dartmouth, NS)
St. Andrew Biological Station
Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility
Ice Information Partnership
Motor Vehicle Fleet
Inshore Rescue Boat Program
Species at Risk Atlantic Salmon Production Facilities
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization
At-Sean Observer Programs
Financial Management Services
Pacific Forestry Centre, Satellite Office (Prince George, BC)
Canadian Centre for Remote Sensing
Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program
Isotopes Supply Initiative
Clean Energy Fund
Sustainable Development Technology Canada – Next Generation Biofuels Fund
Program of Energy Research and Development
Pacific Forestry Centre
Astronomy Interpretation Centre – Centre of the Universe
MRI research, Institute Biodiagnostics
Polar Continental Shelf Progam
Canadian Neutron Beam Centre
Aquatic Ecotoxicology, Aquatic and Crop Resource Development
Molecular Biochemistry Laboratory, Aquatic and Crop Resource Development
Plant Metabolism Research, Aquatic and Crop Resource Development
Human Health Therapeutics research program
Automotive and Surface Transportation program
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research
Environmental Risks to Health program
Substance Use and Abuse program
First Nations and Inuit Primary Health Care program
Health Infrastructure Support for First Nations and Inuit program
Interim Federal Health Program
Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration
Environmental Knowledge, Technology, Information, and Measurement program
Science, Innovation and Adoption program
Rural and Co-operatives Development program
Farm Debt Mediation Service
Centre for Plant Health (Sidney, BC)
National Aboriginal Health Organization
First Nations Statistical Institute
Cultural Connections for Aboriginal Youth
First Nations and Inuit Health
Fertilizer Pre-Market Efficacy Assessment program
Enforcement of Product of Canada label
RADARSAT Constellation Mission
Whapmagoostui-Kuujjuarapik Research station
Kluane Lake Research Station
Bamfield Marine Science Centre
Microfungal Collection and Herborium
Biogeoscience Institute
Coriolis II research Vessel
OIE Laboratory for Infectious Salmon Anaemia
Canadian Phycological Culture Centre
Brockhouse Institute
Polaris Portable Observatories for Lithospheric Analysis and Research
Mount Megantic Observatory
Smoke Stacks Emissions Monitoring Team
National Roundtable on the Environment and Economy
Environmental Protections Operations Compliant Promotion Program,
Sustainable Water Management Division,
Environmental Effects Monitoring program,
Fresh Water Institute
Canadian Centre for Inlands Waters (Burlington)
World Ozone and Ultraviolet Radiation Data Centre
Environmental Emergencies Program
Parks Canada
Montreal Biosphere
Statistics Canada
Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences
Laboratory for the Analysis of Natural and Synthetic Environmental Toxicants
National Ultrahigh-field NMR Facility for Solids
IsoTrace AMS Facility
Canadian Phycological Culture Centre
Canadian Resource Centre for Zebrafish Genetics
Neuroendocrinology Assay Laboratory at the University of Western Ontario
Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding
Portable Observatories for Lithospheric Analysis and Research Investigating (POLARIS) (Ontario)
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research
St. John’s Centrifuge Modelling Facility
Quebec/Eastern Canada high field NMR facility
Félix d’Hérelle Reference Center for Bacterial Viruses
Canadian Neutron Beam Laboratory
The Compute/Calcul Canada
Center for Innovative Geochronology
Biogeoscience Institute
Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences
Pacific Northwest Consortium Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Centre for Molecular and Materials Science at TRIUMF
Pacific Centre for Isotopic and Geochemical Research
Canadian Cosmogenic Nuclide Exposure Dating Facility
Atlantic Regional Facilities for Materials Characterization
The Canadian SuperDARN/PolarDARN facility

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/m/blog/federal- ... -or-had-th

This is why you should take anything you read by GF with a grain of salt. If he honestly cared about the environment or science, we would have seen a thread for every item on this list. Indeed if Trudeau were at the helm for any of these, guaranteed we would have. This poster reaches so far go try to discredit everything this government does while ignoring that many of the “issues” would have been exacerbated by his own government of choice. This poster is a shining example of why those in glass houses should not throw stones.

[Ka-El]

In spite of how much they love to throw the word around, the hypocrisy that is continually displayed by
the extreme right-wingers on this board is astounding. When it comes to hypocrisy, they own the label.

[Queen K]

No no everything is going to be funded with stamp sales. You know, when email dies.

[Ka-El]

Is that Internet thingy still around?

[Queen K]

:135: Is that Internet thingy still around?

Environment and Climate Change Canada is also providing funding. By the sounds of it, that is where the carbon tax money is going to be funnelled. Now I am not in favour of the carbon tax, not at all. I hope no conservative comes on and accuses me of being in favour of it. I want it gone too. It's a punishing tax on the poor, taking money out and refunding it is stupid.

And I am only postulating that is where the money will go.

I notice that the local governments love wetlands, until a developer wants to build over top of them, or crowd out nature right beside them. Then it's all, 'well, Mother Nature doesn't pay taxes but development does" and BINGO, the application is approved.

Save the Wetlands in school programs but in reality, once those kids graduate they learn about the real World.

And I hate it.

@Gone_Fishin, disapprove of me all you want, but we aren't far apart here.

[christopher]

This poster is a shining example of why those in glass houses should not throw stones.

How many tax dollars saved my guess is you can not find that information.

[Dizzy1]

In spite of how much they love to throw the word around, the hypocrisy that is continually displayed by
the extreme right-wingers on this board is astounding. When it comes to hypocrisy, they own the label.

Left wingers are no less hypocritical, in fact - anyone who has any sort of political leaning is just as much a hypocrite as any other

[Gone_Fishin]

https://www.facebook.com/notes/robert-s ... 808321059/

Conservatives blast cancellation of National Wetland Conservation Fund
ROBERT SOPUCK·FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Ottawa, ON - Today, Robert Sopuck, Member of Parliament for Dauphin-Swan River-Neepawa, and the Hon. Ed Fast, Member of Parliament for Abbotsford, blasted the Liberal government for its absurd decision to cancel the National Wetland Conservation Fund (NWCF).

“This decision is absolutely baffling. The program has been extremely successful at restoring degraded and lost wetlands, and at enhancing their ecological function,” said Sopuck. “Wetlands are some of the most productive ecosystems on the planet. By providing habitat and shelter for fish, nesting habitat, or safety for migratory birds, wetlands are one of our most precious resources,” continued Sopuck. “The Liberals’ decision to cancel this program is profoundly foolish, and embarrassing.”

On February 2nd, 1971, the Convention on Wetlands was adopted. It is an international agreement that aims to halt the worldwide loss of wetlands, which are among our most ecologically diverse and valuable environments. Since then, February 2nd has been celebrated as World Wetlands Day.

“For the Liberals to quietly cancel this program, just a day before World Wetlands Day, is an affront to all those individuals and organizations that work so hard on the ground to protect wetlands and improve our environment,” said Sopuck.
“I am deeply disappointed that the Trudeau Government is slashing funding for wetlands,” said Fast. “At a time when Canada’s climate is changing, wetlands measurably improve our air and water quality. Not only are wetlands valuable in rural areas, they also play a vital role for sustainable urban development and disaster mitigation. They provide drinking water, reduce air pollution and protect cities against floods.”

“Canada should be focused on embracing wetlands as a means to sequester carbon, improve wildlife habitat and manage watersheds,” said Sopuck. “This sort of natural infrastructure is one of the best tools available to fight climate change, and for the Liberals to ignore this reality demonstrates just how much they prefer talk over action when it comes to achieving environmental outcomes.”

Between September, 2014 and March 31, 2017, close to $25.5 million in federal funding was expended on 198 NWCF projects. During this same timeframe, over 2,600 hectares of wetlands and associated uplands have been restored and over 340,000 hectares of wetland and associated upland habitat have been enhanced.

[Queen K]

As they should.

Did the Liberals blast Harper's environment cancellations?

We know the electorate did.