Environment committee  Okay--reduce, subject to the ultimate objectives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Now, we have to make sure that we have the major emitters involved. The negotiations are ongoing. So we have to be very careful. At this point, the negotiations have

Environment committee  I have a question, I guess, from this. I find it a little bit strange and a little peculiar why we would be committing ourselves to something in the future, not knowing what that agreement will be, the Convention on Climate Change, and what those targets would be. Just

Environment committee   gas emissions, not just 30%. So this has some problems with the wording. I'm unclear as to the focus of the amendment that Mr. Bigras has proposed. However, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change does not itself include any specific targets, which has been

Environment committee   to the climate change crisis in different timelines. Our own minister, your minister, went to Bali to launch the two-year negotiation round as contemplated perfectly in the Kyoto Protocol to bring annex 2 countries like India and China and others inside the tent, so that by 2012 they would

Environment committee  I move that Bill C-377, in Clause 5, be amended by replacing line 8 on page 3 with the following: reduced, subject to the targets identified in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, It is important for our targets to be in line with those

Environment committee  Perhaps you could keep on the climate change issue. I don't find a lot of relevance in the War Measures Act in this one.

Environment committee   know that humanity will not be able to face climate change other than by adaptation if the major economies do not participate in limitations of emissions. We know that. So you start from there. How do we get there? I think the Bali process is indeed important, but at the same time

Environment committee  I'd appreciate it if you'd let me answer. That was on process. Secondly, on substance, for instance, Bali is considered a fairly positive contribution to the climate change process in the international community. Why? Because a major decision had to be taken on whether we go

Environment committee  Mr. Morton, I'm just going to interrupt you there for a second. It's Nathan Cullen, and I'm just taking over for my colleague, Mr. Stoffer, for a moment. I welcome you both. As well, I apologize, as I had my flights cancelled in northern British Columbia. It's all this climate

Environment committee  I guess that's pretty much at the heart of the issue: either we think climate change is important, or it isn't. I happen to believe it is. It's also my perception that the minister believes it is. He has stated and reiterated in front of us, and I believe publicly, that he

Environment committee   of Ontario and the climate change action plan process that was set up in the late 1990s. But it was a few years ago that I was involved in those processes.

Environment committee   to the final negotiation, which, of course, as you know, went overtime in order to be done. My problem is the perception—and I certainly won't ask you about what you personally spoke of with Mr. Baird on these issues—that the government is not fully convinced that climate change

Environment committee  Well, I think many of our negotiators who work with the international climate change bureau at Environment Canada have been involved with the negotiations since the beginning and have both the historical knowledge and expertise to provide counsel to the government with regard

Environment committee   of respect for the report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change?

Environment committee   on 1990, which was the year used in the Kyoto Protocol, and on the other you had countries like Canada that not only included 2006 as the reference year in its climate change plan but that also persuaded the other countries to adopt that position. When an individual has worked hard