Good afternoon, everyone.
Welcome, witnesses. We're sorry that we're a couple of minutes late getting started here. We're still finding the way over from our new quarters in West Block, or more importantly how to get out of West Block to get to our committee. Thank you for bearing with us.
We're continuing the study on international leadership. It comes under the pan-Canadian framework on climate change. Today we're going to continue doing that, looking at the price on pollution, or as others sometimes refer to it, the carbon tax.
The way we tend to work the meeting is that each of the organizations will be given 10 minutes to provide opening comments. When we get to the last minute, I'll hold up the yellow card, which means there's one minute left, and then the red card means your time is up. You don't have to end mid-sentence but wind up your thoughts at that point. After we have heard opening statements from everyone, we'll go to a set of questions back and forth between the members and the witnesses. Each member will have six minutes. It's really up to the members to manage their time but I will give the one-minute warning mostly to let the members know that's where they are with their time, and then whoever is talking when the time is up, just wind up your thoughts and then we'll go to the next round of questions.
I would like to welcome you back to the table, Mr. Sopuck. It's been a while since we've seen you here.