Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  If that's the case, how come more nation states have not adopted a carbon tax?

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I think the fundamental hurdle that has existed to date to adoption of a carbon tax has been the question of political acceptability. Certainly it's a tool that has all of the merits on effectiveness grounds, efficiency grounds, and can be designed to meet equity concerns

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Has there been, for example, any analysis of the countries that have carbon taxes versus the cap and trade system in the U.S. under the U.S. Clean Air Act? Which of the two systems is in fact costing less to achieve greenhouse gas reductions?

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  The U.S. system is not achieving greenhouse gas emissions reductions, so it would be comparing apples and oranges. The U.S. system is producing reductions in sulphur dioxide emissions. Carbon taxes are obviously reducing different pollutants. I think it is important to look

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee   performance. I really liked Mr. Boyd's statement when he told us that we need an effective, efficient and equitable policy to fight climate change. Mr. Villeneuve provided us with some food for thought earlier in proposing, for example, a carbon exchange, a carbon tax, research funding

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  -forward strategy is to adopt a carbon tax. If we were to see here, say, four or five economists, Mr. Boyd, in one room at the same table, would we find a consensus on your views?

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Mr. McGuinty, I think you'd find approximately the same kind of consensus among economists as to the efficiency of a carbon tax as you find among scientists with respect to the science of climate change. It's widely recognized that a carbon tax is the single most efficient way

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  You went further and said that the top performing, most competitive countries in the OECD, if I understood, all have carbon taxes. Are you telling us that there's a causal connection between the carbon tax presence in those four economies and their competitive position globally?

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I wouldn't put it that way, Mr. McGuinty. I'd actually say that those countries, which are Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark, all of which have carbon taxes and have had carbon taxes for a number of years, have not had their economies harmed by the presence of those

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  It could well take less than 10 minutes. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I agree with most of the speeches I've heard this morning. I believe it's absolutely essential to send Canadians a signal by means of a carbon tax, a fuel tax. However, that signal must

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee   authorized under part 11 of CEPA. The amendment I'm recommending is to authorize the federal government to use environmental taxes, specifically a carbon tax. The majority of experts and economists agree that the most effective and efficient means of addressing the market's failure

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee   intensity. I'll be able to answer questions on carbon intensity later on. We will have to levy a carbon tax that will be applicable to exports as well, as Norway has done, so that we can have revenue to purchase reductions in the international market and not to put our industries

Business of Supply   call it a carbon tax or costing CO2 emissions. We can call it internalizing negative externalities. We can call it whatever we want, but the point is, it is paying for the damage that is being done as we go. The wonderful thing about that, and we have suggested in this motion

Natural Resources committee   question to you is, number one, why should it not be mandated so that we can terminate the cajoling and the coaxing of industry and just force them to do something? Or, in the absence of mandating carbon capture and storage, why not impose a carbon tax to accelerate the reduction

Natural Resources committee   would be destroyed in that type of initiative. With respect to the idea of a carbon tax, we think that's a policy consideration that really goes above and beyond the purview of what our group is involved in. Each of our companies has its own respective opinions on that mechanism