Finance committee  Thank you very much, Chair and members of the committee. We're very pleased to be here today to participate in this review. As you noted, I'm joined by colleagues from Finance Canada, as well as from our legislative governance team at Environment and Climate Change Canada. I'm

Natural Resources committee  Hi, I'm Judy Meltzer, from Environment and Climate Change Canada, and I'll give you the first part of the response and then turn to my colleagues to add. Thank you for that question. The short answer is yes, insofar as there is close collaboration and folks across the department

Natural Resources committee  I'll finish on my point and then turn to that. It's related insofar as some of the themes are common, but remember, in our case, we're looking very specifically at the risks to carbon leakage and competitiveness that result from the application of the pollution price. There is

Natural Resources committee  It will be later this fall, and certainly before the new year. Again, those will be draft and we will be continuing to consult. We have a pretty intensive systematic consultation going on with industry, the provinces and territories through 14-plus working groups, so that's still

Natural Resources committee  I'll just make two quick comments on that topic. With respect to explicitly pricing carbon pollution, we have seen significant support across different business and industrial sectors. I'd point to the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition, which is an international organization t

Environment committee  Thank you very much. I'm Judy Meltzer, and I'm the Director General of the Carbon Pricing Bureau in the Environmental Protection Branch at Environment and Climate Change Canada.

Environment committee  Thank you. My understanding is that the answer to that question is yes. We don't have the folks at the table who are able to speak to that specifically from our enforcement branch, but we can follow up.

Environment committee  Thank you for that question. I am mindful of time limits, but I'll start with just the broad question that you raise. I guess I'll just preface this by saying that obviously this is not a new tool. This is a well-established tool that's been in place—by many metrics, successful

Environment committee  I would point back to—and I won't be able to quote it verbatim.... This approach came out of a lot of engagement, not only with provinces and territories, but with a whole range of stakeholders, indigenous communities, industry and the Canadian public. The broad pan-Canadian ap

Environment committee  That's right.

Environment committee  I can't confirm that currently, but I'm happy to follow up. I know the report you're referring to, but I don't have that number on hand.

Environment committee  My focus, singularly, is on the development of the carbon pollution pricing system. I want to make sure we give you accurate data. We will follow up to confirm. I guess what I would point to is our recent.... We submit reports to the UNFCCC—national communications in a biennial

Environment committee  When it comes to making sure you have the right figures, I want to make sure the right people provide that information, but I think there are two different things here. What I'm referring to is the projected emissions trajectory from the prior report. As you may be aware, year ov

Environment committee  Not that I'm aware of.

Environment committee  Not that I'm aware of, but again, I would just caveat that this is beyond my general scope of expertise.