Natural Resources  They also allow new plants; they just tinker with it a bit. Again, the solution to economic and conservation issues is carbon fee and dividend. Carbon fee and dividend almost does it all. It prices carbon fairly and scientifically, uses only free market forces to foster CO2 reductions, costs virtually nothing to administer, benefits lower income Canadians and, what should appeal to that side, no money goes to the government at all.

The Environment  The Citizens Climate Lobby strongly supports carbon fee and dividend. Will the Minister of Finance consider carbon fee and dividend?

Natural Resources  We need a national energy strategy, one that is approved in Parliament. We need to price CO2 with carbon fee and dividends, which I will introduce soon. We need to meet Canadian energy needs, create jobs, and protect the environment. We can achieve Canadian oil self-sufficiency. We can balance economic growth with smart choices about sustainable energy.

Natural Resources  Future generations will face huge burdens if they are forced to pay for the damage climate disruption will do. My proposed carbon fee and dividend bill would dramatically reduce CO2 emissions and end poverty at the same time. We must go back to the drawing board and come back with a real plan for energy security that also protects the environment of Canada, west and east.

The Environment  The Conservative government has not addressed either one. Proposed by the Citizens Climate Lobby, carbon fee and dividend would address both by setting a fee on carbon to curb our petrol addictions and putting that money straight back into the pockets of each and every Canadian. Will the Minister of Finance please consider carbon fee and dividend?

Natural Resources  There are no details, of course, and likely no real commitment. The simple answer is carbon fee and dividend, supported by the leader of the Green Party. My question is, do the Conservatives really believe in letting the market decide? Will they consider carbon fee and dividend, which could solve the CO2 problem in a predictable and effective way?

The Environment  B.C. implemented a carbon tax, and the sky did not fall. In contrast to taxes, under revenue neutral fee and dividend, the government keeps none of the fee. Fee and dividend has the greatest potential to reduce emissions, being simpler and business friendly, and it would provide the best incentive of all for renewable energy alternatives: price.

The Environment  Speaker, the Citizens Climate Lobby is on the Hill this week calling on MPs to put a price on carbon pollution, specifically a carbon fee and dividend system. Fee and dividend is far more effective than cap and trade. It is a revenue neutral fee that punishes pollution, puts money into taxpayers' pockets, and creates jobs. Will the Conservatives protect the environment and taxpayers by supporting carbon fee and dividend?

The Economy  In budget 2014, Thunder Bay—Superior North and I were looking for support for our seniors and pension reform, but nothing was offered. We were looking for a fee and dividend system that would put a price on carbon and put money back into the pockets of taxpayers, but the government did not even mention climate change in the budget. We sought incentives for small business owners, but instead the government got rid of the $1,000 hiring tax credit and refuses to reduce the job-killing EI premiums and a huge EI fund surplus, which is really a tax.

The Environment  In Canada, so far the debate has been sadly polarized, like tonight, between cap and trade, which the U.S. is never likely to adopt, or a carbon tax, which political parties do not want to touch. Let us take the good advice of the Citizens Climate Lobby and support fee and dividend as the simpliest, fairest, and most efficient way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a business-friendly way.

Environment committee  Well, there's cap and trade, there's cap and dividends, there are carbon taxes, there are lots of mechanisms, and I myself am actually not wedded to any particular one. I really am not. The second one is regulation. Sometimes regulations are appropriate--car regulations, emission regulations, that kind of thing.