Translation of "Act Buenos Aires on Hydrologic Basins " (English → French) :

Act of Buenos Aires on Hydrologic Basins

Act of Santiago concerning Hydrologic Basins

It was agreed, - That the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration be granted a travel budget of $106,602 to travel to Buenos Aires (Argentina), Santiago (Chile), San José (Costa Rica), Tegucigalpa (Honduras), Guatemala City (Guatemala), in May and June 2003, for its study on a National Identity Card and review of the Implementation of Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA).

The Committee commenced consideration of Chapter 3 (Responding to Climate Change -Time to Rethink Canada's Implementation Strategy) of the 1998 Annual Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, tabled pursuant to section 23(3) of an Act to Amend the Auditor General's Act and Global Climate Change in view of the Fourth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Buenos Aires, November 1998) Brian Emmett, David Oulton, J ...[+++]im Wall, Richard Ballhorn, Robert Hornung made opening statements and, with Sue Kirby, Art Jaques, John Sargent, Nick Marty, answered questions.

Let's not forget that the bombing of the Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires in the 1990s has been directly placed at the feet of Hezbollah, acting on behalf of Iran.

Question No. 140 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to development of the oil sands, its impacts on the environment and surrounding communities, and the economic effects of these impacts: (a) what, if any, steps has the government taken to establish air emission limits or air quality standards to achieve the World Health Organization’s Air Quality Guidelines to protect air quality and human health; (b) what, if any, steps has the government’s sector-by-sector approach taken to regulate carbon emissions in the oil sands to ensure the oil sands industry makes appropriate reductions in its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to contribute to Canada’s GHG emission reduction goal of 17% below ...[+++] the 2005 level; (c) what, if any, studies has the government undertaken to examine the effect of the oil sands expansion on (i) GHG emissions, (ii) Canada’s ability to meet its GHG emission reduction goals, (iii) Canada’s contribution to the goal of staying below a 2°C increase in global average surface temperature, relative to the pre-industrial level, as articulated at the G8 meeting in L’Aquila, Italy and at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations through the Copenhagen Accord in December 2009 and the Cancun Agreements in December 2010, (iv) the full suite of sustainability criteria, including environmental, economic and social sustainability, and (v) what were the results of any studies identified in (c)(i), (c)(ii), (c)(iii), and (c)(iv); (d) what, if any, studies has the government undertaken to examine (i) the scope of oil sands expansion if the oil sands sector is not required to deliver its proportional share of GHG reductions, (ii) the impacts such a decision would have on other sectors’ allowable GHG emissions, (iii) whether other sectors of the Canadian economy would have to do more than their proportional share to reduce emissions, (iv) what were the results of any studies identified in (d)(i), (d)(ii), and (d)(iii); (e) what, if any, studies ...