Witnesses: From Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada: Bill Boddis, Acting Director, Cross Sectoral Policy Development Division, Policy Branch; Dr. Frank Marks, Director, Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre, London, Ontario, Research Branch; Michael Presley, Director, Environment Bureau, Policy Branch; Terence McRae, Senior Environmental Analyst, Environment Bureau.

With me today are Fiona Dellar, a policy analyst with the FCM, and Daniel McGregor, a senior policy analyst with the FCM.

Summary code: Energy / European energy policy / Financial instruments Energy / Energy efficiency / Policy orientations Enterprise / Business environment / Business support / Financing Environment and climate change / Tackling climate change / Innovation framework Environment and climate change / Sustainable development / Sustainable development instruments Research and innovation / General framework / Programmes and initiatives / Seventh Framework Programme (2007 to 2013) Research and innovation / Research in support of other policies / Fields of researc ...[+++]h / Enterprises Information society / Digital Strategy, i2010 Strategy, eEurope Action Plan, Digital Strategy Programmes / Programmes

From the David Suzuki Foundation, we have Dale Marshall, who is the policy analyst for the climate change program, and from the Montreal Public Health Authority, we have Louis Drouin, who heads up the Urban Environment and Health Department, and Norman King, Epidemiologist, Urban Environment and Health Department.

I would like to welcome Mr. Glenn Clark, Chief, CHST and Policy Development, Federal-Provincial Relations and Social Policy Branch; and Ms. Krista Campbell, Senior Policy Analyst, CHST and Policy Development, Federal-Provincial Relations and Social Policy Branch; and Ms. Martine Lajoie, Senior Policy Analyst, CHST and Policy Development, Federal-Provincial Relations and Social Policy Branch, Department of Finance.

, and "Canada and the European Community .will join their efforts in the protection of the environment and the pursuit of sustainable development within each country as well as the preservation of the fragile global eco-system", Declare their intention to strengthen further their cooperation in the following areas: * multilateral negotiations of the conventions on climate change, on the conservation of biological diversity, and on a global forest convention or agreement; * preparations for the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development currently underway; * the follow-up of the implementation of the Montreal Protocol ...[+++] on substances that deplete the ozone layer and the Basel Convention on the control of transboundary movement of hazardous wastes and their disposal; * the cooperation with Eastern and Central Europe in the G-24 and in the framework of the UN Economic Commission for Europe; * the bilateral ministerial initiative to ensure conservation and rational management of living marine resources in the Northwest Atlantic; - 2 - * the pursuit of effective measures to address the pressing issue of marine pollution, particularly from land-based sources; * working together through UNCED to develop comprehensive principles for the conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests; * the closely linked issues of the development and use of economic and fiscal instruments in the implementation of environmental policy objectives; * the exchange of views on waste management, the implementation of environmental impact assessment, the development and application of environmental legislation and all matters of water quality.