Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise virtually today because I am hovering near where my new granddaughter was just born. That is not part of the petition.
I am very pleased to present a petition that does relate to motherhood. It is from an unusual group of petitioners; they are all physicians who are also mothers. The petitioners, as physicians and as mothers, ask the House to pay attention to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's special report about 1.5°C. It was actually issued in the fall of 2018 and set out the parameters that the world will have to meet to avoid going over dangerous tipping points that put the future of our children and grandchildren at risk.
Petitioners ask the government to be cognizant of the imperatives to meet the Paris Agreement targets to reduce emissions dramatically and quickly, to avoid going over a 1.5°C global average temperature increase, which puts the future of human civilization at risk.