Thank you for being here.
I want to talk about British Columbia for a minute. My riding is Kootenay—Columbia, in the southeast corner of B.C.
When carbon pricing in British Columbia comes up, we occasionally hear about different approaches to carbon reduction. I have to say that I have been in favour of pricing pollution, absolutely. We occasionally hear people say that the reason carbon decreased was that the economy was getting into trouble by about 2008 or so, and that was the reason the amount of carbon went down; it wasn't because of the pricing on pollution. We also hear at times that it started to go up because B.C. stopped adding to their price of carbon on an annual basis, which they were doing at one time.
I'd be interested in hearing those of you who have studied British Columbia closely talk about those issues.