Philip Lawrence at the Transport, Infrastructure and Communities Committee

I think that's an important point to highlight because the carbon tax is supposed to be there to make you select choices that reduce your carbon footprint. However, the way it works in the aviation space is if I fly from Toronto to Vancouver, I'm not paying the carbon tax—or the airline's not paying the carbon tax; whichever way you want to slice it—but if I fly a shorter flight from Toronto to Ottawa, I have to pay the carbon tax.