I think it's a really great question for us to consider here. Canadians need to know what it is that we're trying to achieve.
A few weeks ago, William Nordhaus, a leading economist, won the Nobel Prize for economics, based on his work around the need to price pollution, the need for us to put a price on pollution in order to actually use a market-based mechanism to reduce the amount of pollution.
This is not a novel economic concept. This is a broadly accepted economic concept. It's not a partisan concept. People understand that when you put a price on something, you actually have an impact, so we put a price on something that we don't want. Pollution is something that we don't want, and we deal with it in a way that allows people to make their own choices. We give people the money from which they can make their own choices on how to best satisfy their family goals and demands. That is exactly what we're trying to do here.
In my estimation, the people who are arguing about this either don't believe in climate change or don't care. It's one of the two options. We believe in climate change, and we care about climate change. That means we're going to take the most economically efficient way to deal with the long-term impact of climate change, and that's by putting a price on pollution. That's what we're trying to achieve here.
The minor squabbles from people who are trying to serve themselves with political points.... Over the long term, I think what Canadians see is that we're actually trying to make a difference for us today, for our children and for our grandchildren by actually having a material impact on our environment.