Environment committee  I can't explicitly recall, for example, the minister making mention of that in the intervention he made on behalf of Canada. I would note, though, that there is a very significant reference to the IPCC findings, which Canada finally agreed to. That's the last message or positio

Environment committee  Yes, they would have. To clarify, it's not the business of the IPCC to define what represents dangerous anthropogenic interference or dangerous human interference with the global climate system. That ultimately is a political decision. There's been a growing constituency begun

Environment committee  Yes, absolutely.

Environment committee  I'm certainly in agreement with Chris in terms of the need to integrate the two. At our institute we're going to be holding a conference at the beginning of March looking at post-2012 scenarios for Canada. I find that within the context of what the different options are, the scen

Environment committee  Fair enough, but at the same time.... Far be it for me to be reading the minds of the government or government members, but I think the real reluctance behind it is this whole business of developing and developed country engagements. Why don't we call them at it, then? If in fact

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  That event? I was there for about a minute. I was told that there was nothing going on, so I left. I can't speak to it, no.

Environment committee  As was characterized, it was a side event where they were going to talk about Canada's plan.

Environment committee  There didn't seem to be much of anything happening.

Environment committee  Yes, that's what I was told. That was my understanding. I had more important things to do.

Environment committee  I'm not going to be reporting on second-hand knowledge. I have no direct knowledge of anything. All I would ever receive is second-hand knowledge.

Environment committee  I will absolutely agree with you in terms of the conservative estimations coming out of the IPCC reports. As a result, one of the very interesting recommendations that came from the national round table last week was how we need to develop our adaptive policy-making within the go

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'll be trying to address some of the broader issues around Bali and what it actually delivered, instead of specifically addressing issues from Canada—at least in my intervention. I will talk about the implications for Canada, however, and I'll be glad t

Environment committee  I'm not clear whether this is a contrary position or not. I was simply making a statement of fact. A process currently under way was launched in Montreal that obliges annex one parties, who ratified the Kyoto Protocol, to discuss further and deeper reduction commitments for the p

Environment committee  Certainly in the discussions that are going on for the large final emitters system, one of the questions is what the default standard should be for new installations. I would say that anything more than a combined gas cycle would be unacceptable. You have to give industry the sig