Canada's Sixth National Communication and First Biennial Report on Climate Change for 2014 to the UNFCCC: "Between 1948 and 2012, the annual average surface air temperature over Canada's landmass warmed by about 1.7ºC, approximately twice the global average... Northern Canada (north of 60º latitude) has warmed at a rate approximately 2.5 times the global average since the late 1940"s." 
As shown previously, most Canadian peatlands (that will be affected by a warmer climate) occur in the Boreal Peatland Region (64%) and Subarctic Peatland Region (33%). Around 59% of all stored carbon in Canada is contained in these peatlands.