Environment committee  Okay. Thank you. You raised that you are now chair of the Arctic Council. Congratulations on that. It's exciting to see Canada at the helm of the council for a couple of years. Why is climate change not one of the priorities for the Arctic Council?

Environment committee  What about climate change, though?

Environment committee  Sixteen years of research have been done by the Arctic Council just on climate change. It's an important area, and that work will continue.

Environment committee   of areas that we've identified. But that does not stop the 80 other projects that are currently undertaken by the Arctic Council in all areas around climate change, black carbon, safe shipping, search and rescue—there's a long list. But to focus on Canada's priorities, those were

Environment committee   interesting initiatives you might want to bring up that Canada is taking internationally with respect to climate change?

Environment committee   to support international efforts to address climate change. The Fast-start Finance is drawing upon and strengthening Canada's private sector expertise and technologies, and the projects that are being funded are achieving concrete results. Canada has, among other actions taken

Environment committee   to this international forum.... If you look at climate change, you can have some short-term things we can do, immediate action plans, and then you also have some long-term things. Are you able to comment a little bit? Instead of going to these international forums and the complicated negotiations

Environment committee   on the key outcomes of the latest round of climate change negotiations, because wherever I go, people want to know what Canada and the world are doing.

Environment committee   information on the plan that helped address those recommendations. The one recommendation that we made in 2009 that we found had not been addressed was one that we made, I guess, very similarly in this report, which was that we felt the climate change plans should include all

Environment committee  The mobility of species is at the heart of how I think the strategy addresses the implications of climate change: the activities in the strategy, the focus on prevention, early detection, and rapid response. We have change happening in the Canadian landscape. If we tackle those

Environment committee  Thank you very much. Welcome, Minister. It's great to see you at this table. We're all very excited and interested, and we're anticipating your work in this role. There is a particular area of interest for me. It's in a way related to the climate change issue, but of course

Environment committee   of all parties' mitigation actions; providing $400 million in new and additional climate financing in 2010—the largest-ever contribution by Canada to support international efforts on climate change; and introducing aggressive new environmental enforcement rules, which have just passed

Environment committee   environmental problems we face: climate change, pollution, and invasive species. So a lot of this is just the immensity of the task. I was reminded of an analogy one of my predecessors once used. He said this is like trying to go up the down escalator. It's not that the government's

Environment committee  Good morning. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you. Much of what I have to say is based on the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC, although I will provide some updated information where it suggests that the need

Environment committee   and eliminate the selling of unsustainably caught seafood. Market-based approaches do need to be brought into climate change regulation as well. Our food program is a good example of how to engage people and achieve tangible results. We held the first working farm easements in Nova Scotia