Thank you, Chair.
I have just two small comments. I won't argue on behalf of the Liberals too hard on this one. It's just not in my nature, generally speaking; try as I might, it's difficult.
First of all, the notion of the carbon tax is something you have no choice but to pay, and the notion of collecting funds from those who choose to pollute beyond their caps is a choice being made.
Secondly, what we're encouraged by is that this is holding in trust the money that will then go back to the polluters themselves if they're able to design projects that would then mitigate the emission of greenhouse gas reduction. Those are two fundamental principles. If only we could have income taxes in this country that worked this way, where you simply had some relevance in choice as to whether you paid it or not. Then, if you did end up paying, you would have a two-year window from which to draw it back down to improve your own life or something else. It doesn't work that way in the nature of a conditional tax.
I see the chair is taking feverish notes.