Environment committee  Very briefly, I often hear this point that any kind of constraint on your domestic economy, a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system--and I don't say tradeable, it has to be a cap, otherwise nothing is going on--will lead to flight of capital. I think it's too late now

Environment committee   timeframe.” That was what I tried to say in my opening comments. The final point, though, is yes, graduated, we need time, but I believe the policy can be immediate. We have talked about the details of these enough. We have countries that implemented carbon taxes fifteen years ago. So

Environment committee  Mr. Jaccard, you said that if we were serious about reducing greenhouse gas--and I look forward to reading your book, and you've already answered regarding the carbon tax in clarification. You're recommending strongly that we have a graduated scheme. My background is in local

Environment committee  That's well understood. Mr. Jaccard, you talked about taxes and you said that the carbon tax could be between $120 and $150 a tonne. If you consider that every Canadian has a reduction objective of 10 tonnes per person, we'd be sending a bill for $1,500 to everyone in Canada

Environment committee  The carbon tax would be $150 a tonne, and every Canadian has to achieve a reduction of approximately 10 tonnes a year. As there are 30 million Canadians, that means a greenhouse gas reduction of 300 tonnes. If every Canadian has to reduce GHGs by 10 tonnes and you're levying

Environment committee  Going back to taxes, you talked about carbon taxes that should be levied on businesses or individuals.

Environment committee  . If you believe that your policy instrument is something like a carbon tax--that would be one of my two options, something that puts a financial penalty on using the atmosphere as a free waste receptacle--you would literally have to have a graduated schedule so everybody knew what

Environment committee   all of that process. What our research found was that for Canada to achieve its Kyoto target, you would need immediately a carbon tax of $150 per tonne of CO2. In fact, initially we said $120, but that was because we had been given some information that was not reliable about

Petitions   to reduce Canada's greenhouse emissions by 30% below the 1990 level by 2020 and to 80% by 2050, as the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and the State of California have done; to institute a revenue neutral carbon tax to increase prices of fossil fuels; and, finally, to enforce

Finance committee  Ms. Taylor—you seem to be quite popular today—if you utter the phrase “carbon tax” around here, Pavlov's dogs go into full howl mode. Yet you can't continue to treat the atmosphere as a free waste disposal unit. We've come to that conclusion with respect to water, that somehow

Finance committee   and gas. There should be carbon taxes on oil and gas production and consumption. Public transit within and between northern communities also needs federal support. Energy conservation through energy efficient buildings and renewable energy sources must also be encouraged through

The Environment   will not be able to meet our Kyoto targets by the deadline for compliance. Now the Liberal leadership candidate for Etobicoke—Lakeshore is suggesting that Canada impose an economically devastating carbon tax. Could the natural resources minister tell us what the government's position

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, I understand that the member for Etobicoke--Lakeshore is now suggesting a carbon tax on Canadians. Not only does the old Liberal Party want to spend billions of dollars buying hot air credits in Russia, to add insult to injury, it wants to impose a new carbon tax

The Environment   will not do. For example, the hon. member for Etobicoke—Lakeshore, an aspirant to the Liberal leadership on the weekend, says that we need some form of carbon tax, I guess some kind of new national energy program. That is something this government will never do.

Business of Supply   the government in its approach that tax cuts should be general? One thing I have heard from Bloc members is their continual cry about carbon dioxide et cetera. They know that the most effective way to cut it is by implementing a carbon tax which would be a tax on gasoline. Does his party