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Finance committee  Hopefully, you can hear me. We were having microphone problems. Can you hear me if I speak right into it?

May 24th, 2022Committee meeting

David Browne

Finance committee  That's excellent. In terms of the bill before us, we were expecting more action on phasing out fossil fuel subsidies. That would have involved items in this bill that are not there. On items like freshwater management and permanent funding for protected areas, I don't think they would have required aspects within the bill and legislation, but we were expecting a greater investment in the Canada water agency and the related promises there, and in making more of our protected areas funding more permanent, to incentivize particularly indigenous protected and conserved areas, but also, to some degree, to incentivize the provinces and territories to protect more land.

May 24th, 2022Committee meeting

David Browne

Finance committee  There's a lot that could be said on that, so just to be to be very brief, I would first point to page 92 of our full recommendations document, which is available online, in which our points are made. I would say our focus right now is on what's called the “next policy framework”, which is essentially the framework that allows transfers to the provinces and creates the spending from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada for enhancing our agriculture industry.

January 31st, 2022Committee meeting

David Browne

Finance committee  Vanessa, you are probably in a better position to comment on the economics of carbon pricing.

January 31st, 2022Committee meeting

David Browne