Finance committee  Thank you for the question. I wouldn't go so far as to say they're damaging the food chain.

Finance committee  Second-generation biofuels refer to biofuels made from cereal-based crops, essentially from corn for ethanol and some wheat, mostly canola, for biodiesel. The problem has come because the supports to the biofuel industry were envisioned originally as a climate change measure, as

Finance committee  There's--

Finance committee  Certainly. As you all know, Canada has played an important role in Afghanistan to help girls attend school. There were practically no girls going to school under the Taliban government. Right now there are thousands of girls in school, but there are still millions who are not in

Finance committee  I would say that Canadians are invariably generous in responding to an emergency. When an emergency hits, people open their hearts and their wallets. The long-term investment to address climate change and poverty beyond emergency response is something that falls to government. W

Finance committee  Absolutely. Those are good priorities.

Finance committee  It's a good question, and thank you for asking it. The international shipping is a very large and growing source of greenhouse gas emissions, and in the climate change negotiations no one has really known how to deal with it, because it doesn't belong to any one country, and it'

Finance committee  Not at all.

Finance committee  To cut emissions is the point. And it raises revenue at the same time, which can help the poorest communities deal with the effects of climate change.

Finance committee  Certainly.

Finance committee  We are talking about an international promise made in 1969 and supported by the UN. In 2005, all the parties in Canada's Parliament voted in favour of reaching that goal, but they failed to set a deadline. So, it's a matter of increasing assistance in every possible way. We feel

Finance committee  That's a fund.... I will answer in English.

Finance committee  The green climate fund was set up last year at the UN climate change conference. It's to become operational by 2020, but they have not yet identified the sources of revenue for it. It's to have at least $100 billion to help poor countries cope with climate change. But there is an

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Oxfam is pleased to be with you here today to share our thoughts about the federal budget for 2012. Oxfam, as you know, is an international development and humanitarian agency working in 90 countries around the world. We have three proposals for