Environment committee   proceed or not. That's a very clear one that we've always struggled with. So you could help reduce climate change and warming.... Okay, I'm finished.

Environment committee   is spread across the country in every province and territory. This provides Canada with an outstanding opportunity to fight air pollution and climate change while securing a sustainable energy future. Our presentation today will focus on some of the recommendations from both

Environment committee   the decision being delayed—some people like that, some people don't—but we also have this turning into a major battle having to do with climate change and dirty oil. I think if a proper environmental assessment had been done in the first place without the shortcuts, the Keystone pipeline

Environment committee   sectors and regions of the country and are responsible for the vast majority of Canada's private sector investment, exports, and research and development. As such, our members will be affected by climate change and clearly believe they must be part of the solution. Industry believes

Environment committee  Thank you, sir. As an introduction, I was an assistant deputy minister in Environment Canada for many years. Then I worked as the deputy secretary general of the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, where I helped establish the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm introducing this motion today simply because the 13th Conference of the Parties began on climate change in Bali on December 3, yesterday. The purpose of that conference is to establish mandatory reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions. We know

Environment committee  Mr. Chairman, the difference between the minister and myself is that for 10 years now I have been defending the Kyoto Protocol in the House. I believed in climate change, while the minister's colleagues in the Canadian Alliance and Reform Party denied its very existence. We had

Environment committee   that are considered to be nationally significant are laid out in that legislation. Climate change wasn't one of them, but there are other matters that were. My interest in that law is really based on the idea that a national government should have some discretionary authority to assess projects

Environment committee   on proponents coming forward and, then, proper decisions being made. That's the point of the EA process: that you take into account all the appropriate factors that you should take into account. Whatever you want to include—cumulative environmental impacts, climate change, whatever Canadians

Environment committee   that the environmental assessment process under CEAA has not been used effectively by the Government of Canada in addressing at least one of its own stated environmental priorities: climate change and greenhouse gas emissions. Also, this committee, in section 3.6 of the 2003 report, said something

Environment committee   that necessarily in CEAA right now. In fact, one could make an argument...and I think Professor Weaver at the University of Victoria, who is on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is strongly of the view that we're going to have to make some pretty dramatic decisions here

Environment committee   at the beginning from the working group two report is that if there are benefits in looking at climate change in terms of development, there's growing evidence that decisions regarding macro-economic policy, agricultural policy, multilateral development, bank lending, insurance practices

Environment committee   and committed Canada to the Kyoto targets, but they had no plan. Now they have no targets. Today we've seen the Liberals filibuster, and we have protesters taking off their clothes and protesting a Liberal filibuster against climate change. So we've seen it all. Our government has been

Environment committee  ? Second, because it is urgent that we take action, Mr. Chair. We must make sure that we have a bill, a climate change act, before the minister arrives in Copenhagen. Mr. Chair, it is completely unacceptable to find ourselves with a government that has no strategy, no plan

Environment committee  , at this stage, we will not be supporting sending this bill back to the House unamended, because it is deserving of amendment. It is deserving of us going through this on a clause-by-clause basis to expose for Canadians how important it is for Canada to get a serious climate change plan