Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present this petition regarding climate change and extreme weather events.
Both 2011 and 2012 proved to be years of extremes. In 2011, the United States experienced four extreme weather events that caused losses of $1 billion U.S. each. We have also had climate change wake-up calls in Canada: the 1996 Saguenay flood and the 1998 ice storm.
The petitioners call on the government to accept the signs of climate change, table a comprehensive climate change plan and determine the impacts of the changing climate on extreme weather events and the projected cost to climate-proof assets.