Thank you very much. As the member for Victoria, I want to welcome the members of the committee to our city.
I welcome those of you who are not from Victoria.
Each one of your presentations was very interesting. I wish we had time to tackle all of them. I'm going to focus on some issues I'm working on, particularly in Ottawa. I'll start with the issue of climate change and some of the proposals that were raised this morning.
Mr. Garrison said he didn't particularly support a carbon tax.
Mr. Hackney, I think you indicated that you did, and that you felt there were ways to address the issue of hardship to low-income people. Now, I'm wondering if you could address that, and how you think that can be done.
Also, given that we know the biggest portion of pollution or greenhouse gas emissions relate directly to the large emitters like oil and gas, and a huge percent of our increase has been related directly to the accelerated development of tar sands, I'm wondering if you don't think it might be better to first focus on a mandatory cap and on pricing carbon at that point first, to tackle where the biggest pollution comes from.