House of Commons photoWon her last election, in 2015, with 44% of the vote.
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Mr. Chair, a study in the journal Environmental Research Letters analyzed 4,000 summaries of peer-reviewed papers in journals giving a view of climate change since the early 1900s and found that 97% said that it was mainly caused by humans. It was the biggest review, so far, of scientific opinion on climate change and showed a clear consensus.
Does the minister agree that there is a scientific consensus that climate change is real and largely man-made?
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Mr. Chair, between 2001 and 2010, global temperatures averaged .46° centigrade above the 1961-1990 average and were the highest ever recorded for a 10-year period since the beginning of instrumental climate records.
Does the minister believe that this is an indication that climate change is occurring?
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Mr. Chair, does the minister agree with the statement that a 2° average global temperature increase is a tipping point for destructive and possibly catastrophic climate change impacts?
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Mr. Chair, does the minister believe that climate change has been caused by human activity?
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Mr. Chair, that is finally a bit of an answer.
Does the minister believe that the global annual average temperature is rising?
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Mr. Chair, of course, the climate-related impacts have been documented in the Natural Resources Canada report in 2007. Could the minister detail specific measures his department is taking to assess the impacts of these vulnerabilities?
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Mr. Chair, given these briefings, does the minister agree that current levels of exposure and sensitivity to climate-related changes, as well as limitations in adaptive capacity, make some northern systems and populations particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change?
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Mr. Chair, how many climate science briefings did the minister receive in the past year?
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Mr. Chair, are any Natural Resources Canada staff presently seconded to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade? If yes, how many, what is their mandate and which countries are they working in?
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Mr. Chair, has the minister or senior staff attended any meetings related to the development or implementation of the pan-European oil sands advocacy strategy?