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Trudeau will not be there this year — his presence would have accounted for a big chunk of the Paris Government of Canada delegation — but some opposition MPs will (just as they were last year) including Conservative Ed Fast. There had been some earlier sniping between Fast’s office and McKenna’s office over the conditions of his participation but that has appeared to have been sorted out. In addition to Fast, NDP Linda Duncan and BQ MP Monique Pauzé are on the official delegation list. Green Party leader Elizabeth May has said earlier she’ll have to miss this COP — she’s been to almost all the others — as a result of some demanding travel she’s already done this fall with the House of Commons special committee on electoral reform.

Now, not all of those who are are on this list of Canadian participants were able to attend. David McLaughlin, an advisor to Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister, for example, stayed home to finish up work on that province climate change policy ahead of this fall’s First Ministers’ Meeting on the issue. Nor are all those on the list members of the official Canadian delegation. The representatives of the Assembly of First Nations, for example, are there independent of official Government of Canada delegation. One would assume the large number of Quebec government politicians and Quebec government bureaucrats are also independent of the official Canadian delegation.

That said, the largest group of participants are federal and provincial government employees, deputy ministers, scientists and other bureaucrats who work on environmental issues. Some are over in Marrakech on the federal government’s dime; many others paid their own way. Here are some notes on participants: