Joe Oliver on BUSINESS OF SUPPLY

Mr. Chair, through our budget, our government has renewed domestic climate change adaptation funding. This was an almost $150-million investment over five years. Natural Resources would receive $35 million to enhance competitiveness in a changing climate with this new funding. NRCan is working with provinces and territories, industry and professional organizations to develop the knowledge and tools to adapt their operations and services to the effects of a changing climate. Examples include a protocol to assess infrastructure vulnerability currently being applied to the highways in British Columbia and at Pearson airport in Toronto; tools, such as mapping permafrost hazards to inform the development of new mines, roads and ports in the north; compiling natural resource sector-specific business cases have been highlighted--