We can peg what the cost is going to be in 2022, what the cost is today, and what regimes will be coming into place in jurisdictions like Ontario, where there is a $20-per-tonne regime that will start in 2019.
According to StatsCan, the carbon footprint for manufacturing and export-related industries is roughly 76.5 megatonnes, which translates into 76,500,000 tonnes of carbon. When we do the multiplier effect, we come up with roughly $3.825 billion that's going to be levied on the manufacturing industry by 2022.
Of the jobs that exist within manufacturing in Canada, 740,000 are in Ontario and 450,000 are in Quebec, which means that roughly 75%—a little higher, actually—of these jobs are in Ontario and Quebec. There is a $3.8-billion tax that's going to be levied on them, of which 75% will have to be assumed within these two provinces.
Not just as a member of Parliament who sits on the industry committee for our country, but as a member of Parliament who represents people in Ontario—in a manufacturing town that has had a lot of pain over the years, starting in the 1990s and working on through—I think it falls upon us, if we can't answer the question, at least to start the conversation as to what the effects are going to be down the road.
This is our last meeting to discuss this subject in terms of manufacturing, and I think we have a huge hole in our report. If we are not willing to bring in witnesses to discuss this specific item, I don't know how we can comment on it in a report.
We can give opinions. We can say, “We know there's this issue, but we didn't bother calling anyone to ask them what they thought.” We know that the CFIB has conducted a study, which will be out in the next two or three weeks. Why we wouldn't have them come in and bring their data to us, I'm not sure. We know the Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters association is conducting a study. That we wouldn't have them bring in their data to the committee towards this report makes no sense to me.
One of the things I am looking forward to after the testimony from the witnesses is finding out what data they have that's specifically related to this subject. If the government is going to move in a certain direction on taxation, that will encourage behaviours in one way or another. I know they must have data to provide to us as to what the effects of that will be. Otherwise, why bring in a tax in the beginning that you think is going to move behaviours in a certain direction, if you don't have the data to show that this is what is going to happen?
With that, Mr. Chair, do you want me to pass this around?