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OTTAWA – One of his first official acts if elected prime minister in 2015 will be to attend a major international climate change conference in Paris, NDP leader Tom Mulcair declared Wednesday as he unveiled his party’s vision for a sustainable future that he says takes both the environment and the economy into account.

Speaking before a business audience at the Economic Club of Canada, Mulcair made good on a promise to share what will surely be a key platform plank aimed at setting the NDP apart from the Conservatives and Liberals in the next election.

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“We’ll be there, working with our international allies, instead of working against them,” Mulcair said, after outlining a number of key initiatives.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been known to skip climate change conferences and it was just after the UN climate change summit in Durban in December 2011 that then-environment minister Peter Kent announced Canada was pulling out of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.