Environment committee  I'm responsible for the development of the clean fuel standard, and no, we haven't promulgated the standard yet. I'll briefly tell you what we have done. The minister has made a commitment about the overall objectives of the clean fuel standard. It will apply to all fuels—liqui

Environment committee  No, absolutely not. The clean fuel standard will take the form of a regulation, so it will be like any other Governor in Council regulation. A draft version of it will be published in the Canada Gazette part I. We plan to do that by the middle of 2018. That will be accompanied b

Environment committee  Yes, absolutely.

Environment committee  Yes, we will provide full economic analysis with no redaction. I'd like to briefly explain the distinction. The clean fuel standard will be a federal regulation. It will apply uniformly across Canada. The federal government is not imposing a carbon tax across Canada. There will

Environment committee  The backstop will not apply throughout Canada. The backstop will only apply in jurisdictions that choose not to implement carbon pricing. Until such time as we know what those jurisdictions are, the economic analysis remains.... We've done broad economic analysis about the impact

Environment committee  I can address those.

Environment committee  The federal government already has regulations for coal-fired electricity generation. What we announced was an amendment to those regulations to accelerate the effective phase-out of coal-fired electricity. We published draft regulations, and we plan to publish the final version

Environment committee  Maybe I could jump in. It won't completely answer your question. The clean fuel standard will establish requirements to reduce the life-cycle carbon intensity of all fuels, thereby creating incentives for fuel mixing and fuel switching. This may create incentives for increased u

Environment committee  Well, the federal complementary regulations are the two electricity regulations that I just referred to, and those are essentially finalized. We plan to publish those in a matter of weeks or, at most, a month or two. We plan to publish the methane regulations in late winter. Ag

Environment committee  Thank you for the question.

Environment committee  Yes. May I answer in English?

Environment committee  Okay, thank you. I apologize, but it's easier. On the specific example, we are aware of the plant and the potential implications for the plant that will flow from the regulations that we are developing to deal with asbestos. We are in discussions with the plant and I do not thi

Environment committee  I can point the member to the Canadian Environment and Sustainability Indicators that we publish. Those track—

Environment committee  I would respectfully disagree. It's not a simply question. As an ecologist, you know in Canada, environmental quality is comprised of numerous complex interactions. We're able to track and report on the state on specific indicators of specific attributes. Environment Canada does

Finance committee  Yesterday, as you all likely know, the government released a study titled “Estimated Results of the Federal Carbon Pricing System”. That study explains that it's actually not possible to do precisely the calculation you just asked about, because first, the final impact on Canadia