Natural Resources committee  I understand it to mean that a carbon tax would be a clear signal from the federal government that carbon capture and storage is part of the Canadian strategy. It would trigger industry to do something about carbon and leave it to industry as to how to best reduce their own

Natural Resources committee  This is not a recommendation for policy, but you could have a form of carbon tax within the country, one that we manage, where we know that we're not simply transferring wealth out of the country to some organization that had to shut down their dirty old polluter ten years ago

Environment committee   is the intent? Now, we heard very clearly from him and the people...Mr. Ignatieff was quoted, who he was supporting. He very clearly said that they support a carbon tax, higher taxes for Canadians. It's a very clear, direct question. Is part of his climate change plan, part of Bill C-288

Environment committee   said, and Mr. Rodriguez at that time was supporting Mr. Ignatieff. He said taxes would have to increase dramatically. He said taxes would rise to protect the environment, and Mr. Vellacott was asking about the carbon tax position. We are now dealing with Bill C-288

Environment committee   members want to respond to as well, because it does get into this whole issue of punishment and carbon taxes and so on. Mr. Rodriguez's new leader has been unclear on the subject of carbon tax. In fact, Mr. Rodriguez knows the failed leadership candidate, Mr. Ignatieff, supported

Environment committee  I have a question for Mr. Guilbeault. During the Nairobi conference, the French talked about the possible imposition of some sort of carbon tax. Is this mere speculation? Is it serious? Are there other European partners who have contemplated something similar? This would a tax

Environment committee  , in particular, were promoting what were called joint measures. They were proposing the introduction of a carbon tax which would be the same for all countries. Many organizations who appeared before this Committee at the time said that such a tax should not be introduced and that we should

Canada's Clean Air Act   of the process she was involved in? Fourth, why is it that we have to deal with where the short term targets for greenhouse gas emissions are? By that I mean, what does she hope to have achieved by 2012? Fifth, if she will not have a carbon tax, will she at least accept a cap and trade

Canada's Clean Air Act   investment in new technology, but we will not use a carbon tax, because the only people who end up paying are Canadian taxpayers and we think that they have paid enough through their health. Under a Conservative government, it will only be the polluter that will pay. Any industry

Environment committee   it's carbon trading or a carbon tax, it's essentially a metaphor for putting a price on carbon. We applied a price in the modelling effort that showed in fact that through regulation and pricing mechanisms, which were not in any way destructive to the economy, we could achieve our

Environment committee   approaches. The first one was that Canada would not use a carbon tax. The second one was that we would have this absurd price cap for emissions trading. When you start to do that, you become more and more restricted in the policy options you can put forward. So I would encourage

Environment committee   we have emission trading or nothing. Emissions trading is seen as a better solution than others. If you ask industry whether it would rather have a carbon tax or emission trading scheme, they will flat out answer that they want the emission trading. If you ask them whether

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just to follow up on the discussion that had been started on the carbon tax, I found out to my surprise a couple of weeks ago when I attended a symposium at which one of the speakers was one of the leading experts on biofuels, from Georgia Tech university

Environment committee  With respect to a carbon tax, we followed the proposal in Quebec with some interest. The concern I raise with any dedicated tax is that revenues go into general revenues, and our experience with dedicated taxes in the past hasn't been very encouraging. The road tax doesn't go

Environment committee   is, of course, the price that you put on things? Whether it's a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system, depending on what you put into the machine, you're going to get certain kinds of results. I guess that shows us the policy options and the choices we have to make. The third question