That's okay. My question was to you, Minister, and you made the announcement before Christmas, so I would expect that by now you would know.
Of course, the reality is that you don't know the impact, because the cost-benefit analysis on your own departmental website says, quote, that “there are no models within the Department designed to model”, one, “emission reductions”, two, “credit supply”, “or”, three, “economic impacts of” your new Liberal fuel standard “policy in detail.” It also says, “The Department is currently developing a Fuel Lifecycle Assessment Modelling Tool”, I understand, “and...may use new and updated models for publication in the Canada Gazette, Part II, should they become available in time....”
In your own internal documents, I think they are estimating a carbon tax of around $230 a tonne—that would be the equivalent of it—on industry. The Chemistry Industry Association says that your fuel standard will be the equivalent of a carbon tax of “$200 a tonne” on industry, and Ontario manufacturers, as you must know, are warning that it could kill their ability to sell exports to the United States.
What's really curious about this is that you gave large emitters an 80% exemption from your carbon tax, your carbon tax of $30 a tonne, specifically because, you said—and as Conservatives have been warning for years—your new carbon tax would kill jobs and drive businesses out of Canada, but you're imposing a cost four times greater with your new Liberal fuel standard.
If I'm a truck driver and driving a truck 50 hours a week, how many cents per litre will the new Liberal fuel standard add to the cost of diesel?