I introduced this bill because I am calling on Health Canada to establish a national strategy to reduce the effects of urban heat islands, in consultation with the Minister of the Environment, provincial ministers, health representatives and municipal representatives.

Bill C-579 requires the Minister of Health, in consultation with the provincial minister responsible for health and representatives of municipalities, to establish a national strategy to reduce the effects of urban heat islands and table a report to Parliament on the implementation of this strategy.

43. Is convinced that the added-value of MFF ceilings is to finance a political project delivering predictability and certainty to the institutions and stakeholders; considers that the EU 2020 has been adopted by all EU institutions as the EU strategy for the rest of the decade and thus commits all EU institutions and Member states to finance properly the common agreed political agenda; regret therefore the lack of ambition of the EU 2020 strategy but considers its objectives as a bare minimum; considers however that the reduction ...[+++]of the MFF ceilings by 85 billion compare to the Commission proposal, which was a freeze at the 2013 level, is in full contradiction with the EU 2020 agenda;

We are not entirely certain of all of the details, but rather than helping to dispel these concerns, the government has adopted a strategy, similar to what it has done before on the in and out and others, and that is deny, deny, distract and disguise.

21. Emphasises that cooperation between municipalities and regions on a national and European level contributes to eliminating energy islands, to the completion of the internal energy market and to the implementation of energy infrastructure projects; takes the view that the European territorial-cooperation objective of cohesion policy, as well as macro-regional strategies, can increase cooperation opportunities for cross-border projects with a view to achieving efficient and intelligent interconnections between non-conventional local and regional energy sources and large energy grids; underlines the fact that appropriate coordination ...[+++]of infrastructure projects can guarantee the best possible cost-benefit ratio and maximise the efficiency of the EU funds; considers, in this context, that regional cooperation should be improved, in particular with a view to ensuring a proper connection between the priorities established and the European regions;

D. whereas Euro-Mediterranean policy has become a key priority of the EU's external action, as a result of the growing importance of the Mediterranean for Europe in the context of globalisation and of the existence in the Mediterranean region of challenges and problems of particular magnitude in terms of security and peace, inequalities and the need for development, democracy and human rights, migrations and population balance, in a climate of uncertainty as regards the various future possible scenarios in the region should the EU not assume a highly active and energetic strategy ...[+++] for it,