We do want to address these competitiveness issues. However, I don't think that the federal carbon pricing backstop should address intra-jurisdictional competitiveness issues. It is a challenge to address those issues with our foreign competitors. We are still in the process of developing those output-based standards, which will provide a relief and a protection for those sectors. However, Canadian society overall has a responsibility to meet the Paris targets for many reasons, including for the cost of inaction that we heard my colleagues refer to earlier. The output-based pricing system is also a subsidy to industry. It should be said that if we reduce the industry's responsibility to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we're increasing the burden elsewhere.
