Environment committee  I think there are some complementary changes required that this may not take into account here, some of the G8 major emissions initiative. They're dealing with climate change right now, and they're considered partners, at least to advance the discussions, and then those

Environment committee   of a certain number of principles, such as national circumstances, in the consideration of objectives and Canada's future commitment to fighting climate change. It is not national circumstances or the principle of equity that must be considered, but rather the principle of liability

Environment committee  , the House of Commons passed Bill C-288, an act to ensure Canada meets its global climate change obligations under the Kyoto Protocol. Section 3 of that bill stated that the purpose of that act is to ensure that Canada takes effective and timely action to meet its obligations under

Environment committee   to climate change. He wrote it on February 1, but submitted it to the committee on February 11. For the record, Peter Hogg is a well-respected legal scholar in the country, a Companion of the Order of Canada, Queen's Counsel. Those are some significant and very impressive credentials

Environment committee  To my understanding, Canada's objectives were for a mandate for negotiating by the end of 2009 a new global agreement to combat climate change after 2012. I think the minister, in various meetings with UN officials, indicated Canada's support of the United Nations process

Environment committee   of strategies on the “how” front, once we've determined how important all of this.... Finishing up my opening remarks, I was a little distressed that the Canadian Bar Association seemed to still have doubts about the science of climate change. We might well wish to incorporate

Environment committee  Okay. I guess this is for the witnesses again. In the last years we've seen countries like China and India begin to acknowledge the fact that they too need to come on board and have responsibilities in fighting climate change. Canada has been there attempting to work as a bridge

Environment committee  , on the need to do something about climate change, while the U.S. is on the verge or in the midst of a recession. Our government, similar to your federal government right now, has used the excuse of the economy versus the environment, saying that we have these tough choices to make. Have

Environment committee   made to be taken into consideration both by the member states of the European Union as well as by the businesses that decided, from 1990 on, to table plans to fight against climate change? I see that you are also responsible for the environment directorate, climate change strategy

Environment committee  My next question is for Ms. Vicki Arroyo. You said earlier on that despite the stubbornness — that is the word I personally use — of the American administration in distancing themselves from the fight against climate change, the fact remains that there are roughly a dozen

Environment committee   election results in the United States. You mentioned that over 150 bills have mentioned climate change, and there have been 110 climate change hearings on Capitol Hill. I take it the Lieberman-Warner bill is perhaps the most promising bill for bipartisan support in the United States

Environment committee  , since he's still in the running--have embraced cap and trade as a way to deal with this problem, they've acknowledged that climate change is happening. As you probably know, Senator McCain has been a leader and has proposed in fact the very first cap and trade bill, and re-proposed

Environment committee  Basically, we've put in place a package of measures to get to the 20% target by 2020, but also to extend that to 30% in the case, as we expect, of an international agreement. It covers both climate change action and renewable action, and it's a comprehensive package that allows

Environment committee   forward and on the goal. We're well past the debate on the science of climate change. Globally there is an agreement that we have a problem, and a big problem. This government became government two years ago, and I'm not going to dwell on the past, but we found ourselves

Environment committee  Vulnerability to climate change depends on how much a region is exposed to climate change, and much of Canada is warming faster than the rest of the world. But vulnerability also depends on your capacity to do something about it. The capacity to mitigate and adapt requires human