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Canada's environment minister John Baird is off to Paris to attend the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The international conference is expected to review scientific evidence of global climate change.

French President Jacques Chirac is also expected to ask Baird for Canada's support for a new United Nations environment organization. Baird's spokesperson, Mike Van Soelen, would not confirm whether Canada would support the initiative.

If a new UN agency is created with the mandate to work with or assist member nations in their efforts to battle global warming, then Canada should be one of the first nations to sign on.

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