Again, if you have a rising population, and you want to diversify, that would be one critical way to do it.
I appreciate your bluntness earlier, because you asked for an exemption. I think that given the fact that many of the areas you're in....
How does a carbon tax work when you have diesel-dependent communities where 80% of the costs are already being paid for by the government? Who's going to pay that tax, ultimately? You rely on money from federal transfers, and if only 20% is there, and they don't have the tools to be able to switch off onto their own independent source, how does a carbon tax innovate in that area?