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Published in Summer 2001
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New nominations to the Joint Public Advisory Committee
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Recent appointments by Mexico and Canada complete the membership of the Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC), the independent volunteer body that provides advice and public input to Council on any matter within the scope of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation.
David Anderson, Canada’s Minister of the Environment, appointed two new members:
- Ms. Ann Bourget of Quebec City, president and executive director of Vivre en ville, a nongovernmental organization working to heighten public awareness of the principles of sustainable development through territory planning; and
- Ms. Merrell-Ann Phare of Winnipeg, the executive director and legal counsel to the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER), an organization created to establish environmental capacity-building initiatives for First Nations.
Two members appointed by Victor Lichtinger, Mexico’s Secretary for Environment and Natural Resources, are:
- Mr. Gustavo Alanís-Ortega, president of the Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental (Mexican Environmental Law Center—CEMDA), a public-interest environmental law firm based in Mexico City; and
- Ms. Laura Silvan de Durazo, director of the Proyecto Fronterizo de Educación Ambiental, A.C. in Tijuana, Baja California, an organization dedicated to strengthening citizen participation in environmental management.
These appointments complete the five-member delegations of Canada and Mexico, bringing JPAC to its full complement of 15 members, listed below.
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JPAC Members
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Cam Avery
Vancouver, British Columbia
Ann Bourget
Québec City, Québec
Merrell-Ann Phare
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Donna Tingley
Edmonton, Alberta
Liette Vasseur
Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Gustavo Alanís-Ortega
Mexico City
Daniel Basurto
Mexico City
Laura Silvan de Durazo
Tijuana, Baja California
Raúl Tornel
Mexico City
Blanca Torres
Mexico City
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Peter Berle
Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Steve Owens
Phoenix, Arizona
Jonathan Plaut
Summit, New Jersey
Serena Wilson
Great Falls, Virginia
John Wirth
Santa Fe, New Mexico
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The next JPAC meeting will take place in conjunction with the Commission's Regular Session of Council, hosted by Mexico in Guadalajara on 27–29 June 2001.
Documents related to JPAC and its Advice to Council are available on the Commission’s web site http://www.cec.org/jpac or upon request to Manon Pepin at the Secretariat (e-mail: mpepin@ccemtl.org; fax: (514) 350-4314; or telephone: (514) 350-4366).
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