Clean energy, opportunity top the agenda at clean tech forum — Fresh federal cash to protect killer whales — Ministerial budget-boosting tour hits London, Halifax and Saskatoon

With the prime minister’s cross-country (or, at least, tri-province) steel solidarity tour now wrapped up, the Team Trudeau spotlight turns to Vancouver, where Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr are set to make the rounds at the annual GLOBE Forum, which bills itself as “North America’s largest and longest-running leadership summit for sustainable business.”

McKenna kicks off her second day at the conference by sharing her thoughts on “sustainable business [and] sustainable environment” at an open-to-the-media session hosted by the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, which will include a Q&A with the minister.

Later this morning, she’ll be front and centre at the release of what the advisory provided by her office describes as a “major report” from the Smart Prosperity Leaders on “accelerating clean innovation,” as well as the launch of Climate Smart’s “200 Million Tonnes of Opportunity” initiative.

She’ll also take a mid-afternoon tour of the trade show and exhibition floor.

Elsewhere on the GLOBE Forum floor, Carr is scheduled to speak on “mitigating risk [and] driving opportunity” during a panel discussion on clean energy, after which he’ll make himself available to on-site media.

He’ll also drop by the GLOBE Canada Pavilion, and “meet with key Canadian and global business leaders, to discuss Canada’s plan for a clean energy future.”

Also in Vancouver today: Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc, who will unveil new federal funding to protect the dwindling Southern Resident Killer Whale population during a morning appearance at the Vancouver Aquarium, with representatives from the University of British Columbia and the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority also slated to be in attendance.

On the east coast, Treasury Board President Scott Brison hits the budget-boosting circuit in Halifax, where he’ll highlight proposed new measures to “promote pay equity and women’s entrepreneurship” at a closed-door roundtable session at Mount Saint Vincent University.

Meanwhile, Social Development Minister Jean-Yves Duclos will highlight how the latest federal fiscal roadmap “will better support families with young children” during a morning visit to the London Public Library.

Finally, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale drops by the University of Saskatchewan to tout “recent government investments” in research covering a wide variety of areas, including “safe driving, infectious diseases, sleep disorders, cancer … and swine welfare.”

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