That's a great question. I think carbon pricing as a general principle.... This is speaking for myself. We don't have a defined view because we're a platform. We're a think tank. We're an organization that has a lot of different perspectives that we're trying to bring into the public conversation.
Speaking for myself, as someone who's been in this space for about a decade now from when I was a student, we know that carbon pricing can work, but it has to be balanced with trade-offs. If you're only targeting the industrial side of it because politically you've found that consumers are not happy, which is what the Liberal government found in the last election and precipitated some changes before that election, and you're throwing all of the emissions reductions only onto industry, then you're chipping away at the underlying economic base that allows us to have the money in our economy to pay all our bills.
That needs to be balanced carefully. There are lots of tools to employ, but they have to be implemented in a cohesive way. There needs to be a clear alignment between your economic objectives and your climate and environmental policy objectives.
