Joint Actions Update
Clean Air Council Summit
• The Clean Air Council Summit will provide an opportunity for elected
officials from all orders of government to showcase upcoming climate
change actions being undertaken in their jurisdiction and share the
message of the key role municipalities play in advancing air pollution
and climate change solutions.
• 9:00 Welcomes
City of Toronto
The Atmospheric Fund
Clean Air Partnership
9:30 Federal Remarks
• Environment and Climate Change Canada
• (have received notice that Minister McKenna will not be able to join
the Summit but her office is determining a designate who will speak
in her stead).
10:00 Provincial Remarks
• Hon. Glen Murray, Minister of Environment and Climate Change
• Ministry of Energy: Minister Thibeault is unable to make it but his
office is looking into MPP Bob Delaney (Parliamentary Assistant to the
Minister of Energy) joining the Summit to speak on behalf of the
Minister
• Ministry of Municipal Affairs (Minister Mauro cant make it)
• Ministry of Infrastructure (Minister Chiarelli cant make it)
10:45 Municipal Announcements (3 minutes each)
but wont cut them off till 5 minutes.
• Town of Aurora – Councillor Tom Mrakas
• City of Burlington – Councillor Paul Sharman
• Town of Caledon – Regional Councillor Annette Groves (providing remarks); and
Councillor Nick de Boer
• Town of Oakville – Mayor Rob Burton
• City of Oshawa – Mayor John Henry
• Peel Region – Regional Councillor Annette Groves
• City of Pickering – Councillor Maurice Brenner
• Town of Richmond Hill – Deputy Mayor Vito Spatafora (providing remarks); Councillor
Tom Muench; Councillor David West; and Councillor Karen Cilevitz
• City of Toronto – Councillor Michael Layton; and Councillor Mary Margaret McMahon
• City of Vaughan Councillor Marilyn Iafrate
12:00 Clean Air Council Progress Report and Next Steps
12:30 Lunch (in Members Lounge)
• Will be in Council Chambers
• Name tags will be available in Members lounge near the coffee
• Name tags and reserved spots will be in the first row of council
chambers for municipal council reps (name tags for them will also
be at the name tag table as well – there will be duplicates for them
– one at name tag table and another at their reserved spot)
• Gaby will be MCing the event
Goals for the Clean Air Council Summit
• To increase awareness of the Clean Air Council with provincial and federal
departments and representatives
• Invites and Clean Air Council book has gone out to all CAC council
members, MPPs and MPs in the CAC catchment
• Has also gone out to non CAC member municipality councils (across the
GGHS and into SWO and eastern Ontario) to increase their awareness of
the Clean Air Council network
• To bring together federal, provincial and municipal leaders to speak to their
efforts on clean air and climate change and the need for working across
government silos and between different levels of government
• To spread the message of the linkage between the low carbon
transformation and our region’s economic competitiveness
• The linkage between low carbon communities and increased livability and
other co-benefits
• Increasing awareness of the upcoming actions of the Clean Air Council
Upcoming Clean Air Council Meetings
• June 23rd Clean Air Council Meeting (Theme: Transform TO - Climate
Change Actions Modelling)
• June 27th Environmental Programs Workshop
• September 15th, Green Fleets Workshop (will be at the new EV
Discovery Centre at Dufferin and Finch)
• September 22 Clean Air Council Meeting (Bio and Renewable Gas)
• October 20th Growth Plan Implementation Workshop
• October 27 CAC Meeting (Regional Transportation & Freight
• November 10th Health Vulnerability & Resilience Workshop
• November 24 CAC Meeting (Community Energy Financing)
Summer Activities
• Green Development Standards COP and Scan
• Green Procurement Scan Update (Webinars and Interviews)
• Ontario Building Code Consultation
• Air Quality Monitoring and Modeling (possibly in the fall but will see
about doing this over the summer)
• Improving Collaboration Strategies and Techniques workshop
School Environmental Programs Workshop
The goals of the workshop are to:
• hear how the inventory can be made to be of most use to target
audience (teachers and ecoteams)
• highlight the programs that lend themselves to transferability
• address transferability issues and interest
• identify gaps in programming and see about the interest in joint
development of programs to address gaps.