Yes. What I think we're missing in a lot of our policy discussions is the impact that our policy at home can make internationally. We might think we're incenting people to reduce emissions by putting a tax on them, but we could just as easily be incenting people in Quebec and Ontario to import gas from Pennsylvania because you can export your carbon when you import their gas and it won't count in your own numbers. That's the carbon leakage problem. Are we incenting better behaviour, or are we just incenting the export of our carbon, our jobs, and our taxes, all to end up having made the global carbon worse while our own local carbon got better?
I've been saying for a long time that if we have the best.... As just a quick aside, we already have some of the best incentives in the world for adoption of clean tech. That's how we got to be the best, but that doesn't mean we can't be better. If we could export our resources.... Canadian aluminium has the lowest emissions per tonne of aluminium in the world. We should be finding a way to export more of it to the rest of the world to help with carbon emissions, not finding ways to produce less of it.
I could say the same thing about the technologies that go into producing our resources. If our resources are produced to the best standards in the world, often with the lowest carbon content in the world, we could not just export the resources to make the world's global emissions better; we could also export the technology and the knowledge to those other countries.