Thank you so much, Mr. Chair.
I thank everyone for their excellent presentations. I wish I had more time, but I'm going to direct my question to Ms. Lloyd, who has been patiently waiting.
Ms. Lloyd, I think I understand and appreciate more than most the amazing work that Green Economy Canada does. In my youth, I co-founded an environmental group called Project Neutral. We were trying to ensure that neighbourhoods, including small businesses, actually moved themselves towards carbon neutrality, so I have a huge appreciation for the work you do and very much appreciate some of the recommendations you made.
In budget 2021, there are a couple of elements that I wouldn't mind reading out to you and I would like to get your response to them.
The first is:
Budget 2021 proposes to reduce—by 50 per cent—the general corporate and small business income tax rates for businesses that manufacture zero-emission technologies.
I wouldn't mind if you could talk about whether you think that would be helpful as part of your work in trying to engage small business owners to reduce emissions.
The second part is:
[T]he government will undertake an analysis to ensure that Canada keeps pace with the U.S. and other jurisdictions in providing the appropriate tax structures and incentives to encourage clean economy businesses to invest, grow, and deploy solutions here in Canada.
On that one, I wouldn't mind if you could say whether there is another jurisdiction that you think is doing a fairly good job at this and whether there are specific elements that you would suggest we should consider as part of this analysis.