Clark’s demand ups the pressure on the Trudeau Liberals, who have avoided hard choices on resource projects being squeezed between pro−development premiers and environmental and indigenous opponents.

Nine different ministries are involved in the federal ad hoc committee, which will be chaired by Calgary MP Kent Hehr, who serves as veterans affairs minister and associate minister of defence.

Bennett said Canada is uniquely placed because it is one of the few countries in the world that has already incorporated indigenous rights in its constitution.

This is a foretaste of things to come, said Mike Flannigan, professor of wildland fire at the University of Alberta

The Liberal government doesn’t need to reinvent the wheel as it seeks to overhaul the system for assessing and approving major resource projects.

The industry association says about half the promised reductions will come from improved forest practices, including using the slash from downed trees rather than burning it or letting it rot.

Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says the key to dealing with climate change in the Arctic is to have "real conversations" with the Inuit peoples who live there.

It finds that current and developing policies in Canada’s electricity sector are in line with an 80 per cent reduction in GHGs by 2050.

A tearful Michelle Côté, whose boiler maker father was diagnosed with deadly, asbestos-caused mesothelioma in 2014, told an Ottawa news conference that no one deserves to die this way.

The numbers point to a Canadian sector that's facing intense international competition from a flourishing global industry.