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Robert Sopuck was the Conservative Member of Parliament for the Manitoba constituency of Dauphin-Swan River-Neepawa from 2010 to 2019. 

Where will all the land come from?

  • Adding the land requirements for renewable energy, biodiversity conservation, less-intensive farming, and two billion trees equals 469,273 square kilometres or 72 per cent of
Opinion | BY ROBERT SOPUCK | March 6, 2023

Where will all the land come from?

Opinion | BY ROBERT SOPUCK | March 6, 2023
  • Adding the land requirements for renewable energy, biodiversity conservation, less-intensive farming, and two billion trees equals 469,273 square kilometres or 72 per cent of

Where will all the land come from?

Opinion | BY ROBERT SOPUCK | March 6, 2023
  • Adding the land requirements for renewable energy, biodiversity conservation, less-intensive farming, and two billion trees equals 469,273 square kilometres or 72 per cent of

A recommended approach to biodiversity conservation

  • Ecological 'purists' recoil at the thought of active management via human intervention. The problem with the purist approach is that most regions on Earth
Opinion | BY ROBERT SOPUCK | February 13, 2023
Eliminating introduced Pacific salmon, pictured, from the Great Lakes is neither possible or desirable. But we also use 'lampricides,' chemicals designed to kill juvenile lamprey to protect Pacific salmon. This begs the question: what are our priorities for species conservation and on what do we base those decisions, asks Robert Sopuck. Photograph courtesy of Flickr

A recommended approach to biodiversity conservation

Opinion | BY ROBERT SOPUCK | February 13, 2023
  • Ecological 'purists' recoil at the thought of active management via human intervention. The problem with the purist approach is that most regions on Earth

A recommended approach to biodiversity conservation

Opinion | BY ROBERT SOPUCK | February 13, 2023
  • Ecological 'purists' recoil at the thought of active management via human intervention. The problem with the purist approach is that most regions on Earth
Eliminating introduced Pacific salmon, pictured, from the Great Lakes is neither possible or desirable. But we also use 'lampricides,' chemicals designed to kill juvenile lamprey to protect Pacific salmon. This begs the question: what are our priorities for species conservation and on what do we base those decisions, asks Robert Sopuck. Photograph courtesy of Flickr

Biodiversity conservation: the devil is in the details

  • The documents that emerged from COP15 were long on goals and objectives, but woefully short on details. Goals are the easy part but when
Opinion | BY ROBERT SOPUCK | January 30, 2023
COP15 stressed the importance of conserving wild species, which is well and good, but what constitutes a species is still not settled. Hybridization is common in nature whereby two closely related species can cross breed. Mallard duck, left, and black duck hybrids are fairly common yet both are considered separate species, writes Robert Sopuck. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Biodiversity conservation: the devil is in the details

Opinion | BY ROBERT SOPUCK | January 30, 2023
  • The documents that emerged from COP15 were long on goals and objectives, but woefully short on details. Goals are the easy part but when

Biodiversity conservation: the devil is in the details

Opinion | BY ROBERT SOPUCK | January 30, 2023
  • The documents that emerged from COP15 were long on goals and objectives, but woefully short on details. Goals are the easy part but when
COP15 stressed the importance of conserving wild species, which is well and good, but what constitutes a species is still not settled. Hybridization is common in nature whereby two closely related species can cross breed. Mallard duck, left, and black duck hybrids are fairly common yet both are considered separate species, writes Robert Sopuck. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Conservatives don’t have to take a back seat on our environmental accomplishments

  • After 45 years in the field of environmental conservation and resource management, it is clear to me that most public debates on environmental policy
Opinion | BY ROBERT SOPUCK | April 18, 2022
Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault, pictured in September 2020 on the Hill. Justin Trudeau revels in international virtue signalling but his environmental policies are degrading our economy, harming national security, and do not address real environmental issues, writes former Conservative MP Robert Sopuck. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Conservatives don’t have to take a back seat on our environmental accomplishments

Opinion | BY ROBERT SOPUCK | April 18, 2022
  • After 45 years in the field of environmental conservation and resource management, it is clear to me that most public debates on environmental policy

Conservatives don’t have to take a back seat on our environmental accomplishments

Opinion | BY ROBERT SOPUCK | April 18, 2022
  • After 45 years in the field of environmental conservation and resource management, it is clear to me that most public debates on environmental policy
Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault, pictured in September 2020 on the Hill. Justin Trudeau revels in international virtue signalling but his environmental policies are degrading our economy, harming national security, and do not address real environmental issues, writes former Conservative MP Robert Sopuck. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

A letter to my federal Conservative colleagues

  • After nine years as a Member of Parliament, my plan was to spend a bucolic retirement in the Manitoba hinterland, but the political addiction
Opinion | BY ROBERT SOPUCK | February 7, 2022
Erin O’Toole, pictured on Nov. 18, 2021, was ousted as party leader on Feb. 2, 2022. A total of 73 MPs voted to remove him as leader and 43 voted for him to stay. Conservative MP Scott Reid, chair of the national caucus, remained neutral and did not vote. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

A letter to my federal Conservative colleagues

Opinion | BY ROBERT SOPUCK | February 7, 2022
  • After nine years as a Member of Parliament, my plan was to spend a bucolic retirement in the Manitoba hinterland, but the political addiction

A letter to my federal Conservative colleagues

Opinion | BY ROBERT SOPUCK | February 7, 2022
  • After nine years as a Member of Parliament, my plan was to spend a bucolic retirement in the Manitoba hinterland, but the political addiction
Erin O’Toole, pictured on Nov. 18, 2021, was ousted as party leader on Feb. 2, 2022. A total of 73 MPs voted to remove him as leader and 43 voted for him to stay. Conservative MP Scott Reid, chair of the national caucus, remained neutral and did not vote. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
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