The Arctic Climate Change Youth Forum

Congratulations to Rajun Kumar, Tatjana Trabic and Duncan Farthing-Nichol for their efforts in co-chairing the Arctic Climate Change Youth Forum today. In the photo I am with these three co-chairs.

I was honoured to be asked to present our Liberal approach to climate change. While my presentation when on at some length, I emphasized three points:

1) Manitoba should commit to reducing Manitoba's greenhouse gas emissions 6% below their 1990 level by the year 2010. (So far the NDP have not made this commitment or provided a plan to achieve such reductions).

2) Manitoba should develop a Manitoba framework for trading greenhouse gas emissions within Manitoba as part of the strategy to achieve the above reductions. We can't wait for the federal government to act, although we should, to the extent we can, be involved in emissions trading discussions as part of the global effort to make sure the situations in Manitoba are considered.

3) Manitoba must have a plan to invest in road, rail, water management and port (Churchill) facilities in order to mitigate effects of climate change, and to take advantage of opportunities provided by climate change.