Foreign Affairs committee  You're asking big questions. Let me try to give you at least a couple of concrete suggestions for your staff to reference in forthcoming reports. I spent a week in Singapore last year with a delegation from a number of the permanent participants, and we had supper with the Singa

Foreign Affairs committee  Climate change is a huge issue. I'm not going to belabour the point, but there was a major opportunity during Canada's two-year chairmanship to make solid progress on short-lived climate forces. Some of your previous witnesses have discussed this. However, the Arctic Council min

Foreign Affairs committee  No, that is not what I'm suggesting. We have a wide variety of federal institutions particularly that have marine-based mandates—at least in part. What we're suggesting here is that through the establishment of the Nunavut Marine Council there could be a very effective partnersh

Foreign Affairs committee  I'll have a go at this. You would appreciate, however, that NTI doesn't have an international mandate. The Inuit have given the international mandate to the Inuit Circumpolar Conference. I think you heard from the president of ICC Canada on the phone in one of your earlier sessi

Foreign Affairs committee  The Nunavut Marine Council is referenced in the marine provisions of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement. It provides an opportunity to bring together the institutions of public government that were established pursuant to the agreement, and for the Government of Canada and for the