That's absolutely right. One option would be to impose a carbon tax and then take the revenues and distribute those revenues right back to Canadians in the form of an annual cheque. What that would do is create an incentive right across the economy to reduce emissions, so that you pay less carbon taxes and yet you would still get money back at the end of the year. If you are a responsible citizen using less energy, you'd actually come out ahead. It would be the people who are driving gas guzzlers and being energy gluttons who would quite rightly pay more in terms of carbon taxes.
On February 6th, 2007. See this statement in context.