Environment committee  Mr. Chairman, Mr. Cullen has two questions. Let me address them sequentially. In terms of climate change illustrating what we mean by sustainable development...it's a very good illustration, I think. If the government puts forward a government-wide climate change plan, that's

Environment committee   could at the time to understand what the cost to the global economy would be of inaction with respect to climate change. We've heard from the climate change modellers that while Canada might be contributing only 2% to the total global emissions, the effect might be more severe

Environment committee  There's the Pew Charitable Trusts, and we're the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. We're two separate groups. Speaking as the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, we have talked to a number of Canadian representatives about linkage, about different design options

Environment committee  Ms. Peace, this leads me to my second question. For a number of years, the central administrations of the United States and Canada have not taken climate change action, although regional initiatives have been implemented in some American states and some Canadian provinces

Environment committee   to a continental response to climate change, you would put down a couple of conditions. You said, for example, that the caps have to be fixed in absolute terms, similar between countries. You said all gases sectors, fossil fuels, have to be included. There would have to be offset standards

Environment committee  ; and that these changes represent a major threat to international security and are already having harmful consequences all over the world. That conference went on to set a target of a 20% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions below 1988 levels by 2005. Those were heady days in the climate change

Environment committee   to mirror the direction the United States has gone in, including under the Bush regime, where they've put together national security with climate change. I'm wondering if you could give us a little bit more detail out of this framework of the climate change act, various initiatives

Environment committee  What would you consider as a fair contribution so that the industrialized countries would help the developing countries in the context of the climate change adaptation? It is expressed as a GDP percentage. Is it 3 to 4% of the GDP? What kind of contribution

Environment committee  I can appreciate that. I can see already in the discussion that there can be very different regional effects when we discuss what to do about climate change. I come from the southernmost riding in all of Canada. Of course, the auto industry is king there, so possible effects

Environment committee  Perhaps I'll come back to my question. I don't think we heard answers there. With respect to the notion of adapting to global climate change, could you outline what either one of your organizations is doing in the north to support, facilitate, adopt, and advance climate change

Environment committee  Well, before we get into the budget, I really would like to stick to the issue of climate change and Bill C-311, so if you find that the Assembly of First Nations did in fact provide any kind of written response to the government's climate change plan, could you send

Environment committee  Well, just a quick comment, then. I want to thank both witnesses for being here, but Bill C-311 is a discussion. Canada has very aggressive targets. Our position is that all the major emitters have to be part of a new international agreement on climate change. That includes

Environment committee   interesting, because climate change is happening. There is consensus, both internationally and within this committee, that climate change is happening. It's very important to hear your perspective of how that is affecting first nations, Inuit, and Métis. I appreciate what you've shared

Environment committee  Certainly, Mr. Chair. I will make that direct connection immediately. Mr. Tulurialik, I understand you were part of the Inuvik Declaration on Arctic Climate Change and Global Action and that you participated in the youth summit on northern climate change this past August

Environment committee  Thank you very much for the question, sir. First of all, we need to come to terms with the fact that global warming and climate change are actually happening. It's man-made. It's not something that nature has created. We have to admit that climate change is a reality, global