I appreciate that, Minister. Listen. I'm not a climate modeller either. I'm not saying I'm going to be the one who is going to understand, as I believe it was, the 280,000 formulas and data points that were included in the model. My point is that people in this country can't, outside of ECCC.
My question has two parts.
Why are you so hesitant to just hand over that data? If you won't hand it over to us, who else has seen or used EC-PRO?
I noticed that the third response said Navius consulting used CGE models, but I'm curious. Have the data inputs that your modelling is using in EC-PRO been peer reviewed by anybody else? You've talked about 300 economists talking about how great the carbon tax is. Have they looked at this analysis?
Who has seen this outside of ECCC? Why are you so unwilling to give it over to this committee and let Canadians have a look at the data you're using to make the assumption that you are, which is that the carbon tax is actually working?