Thank you.
My riding is Kootenay—Columbia, in southeastern B.C., but I was born in Churchill, Manitoba. The midwife was a polar bear. I lived in Chesterfield Inlet, which is about 500 kilometres north of Churchill, and so the Arctic is still near and dear to my heart. According to the IPCC special report, it's likely that with 2°C of warming, the Arctic Ocean will be completely free of sea ice on average once every 10 years, and with 1.5°C of warming the Arctic Ocean will be completely free of sea ice on average once every 100 years. Of course, both of those have severe impacts on everything that lives in the Arctic.
Has Canada at all looked at potential plans to deal with some of these scenarios going forward? What would they look like? If we know it's coming, what are we doing about planning for it?