To quote from your document, one of the guiding strategic outcomes for the department is “promoting science-based approaches to inform the development of new standards and regulations”. When dealing with climate change, what is the science-based standard in developing regulations? Is it a rise in global temperatures of a certain degree? Is it a total parts per million into the atmosphere contributed by Canadian...? I want to know this so I can understand how the spending is decided upon.
On May 28th, 2008. See this statement in context.