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Environment committee  I would say to the premiers, just implement the plans you've been designing. They're ready to go; they've all looked at it and they can just literally roll them out.

January 28th, 2019Committee meeting

David Sawyer

Environment committee  Yes, sure. Canada has a leading policy architecture that is the envy of the world and that people are looking towards. I was just at the OECD, and people are like, “What's going on in Canada?” This combination of carbon pricing, regulations, innovation subsidy programs, methane

January 28th, 2019Committee meeting

David Sawyer

Environment committee  Sure. Decarbonized electricity—more loading electricity and more end uses in electricity—is absolutely essential to deeper decarbonization. I don't know what else to say there. Yes, it's a priority.

January 28th, 2019Committee meeting

David Sawyer

Environment committee  Ontario's inflation rate was lower in 2017, when cap and trade was in place. The growth in inflation was lower than the previous year and the following year. GDP growth is positive when there's a carbon price in Ontario. We did the analytics on it forecasting it forward, and the

January 28th, 2019Committee meeting

David Sawyer

Environment committee  I would say I'd love to see the data and take a look at it. As I said, we do facility-level analysis and farm-level analysis all the time. Sure, there are costs and there are risks and some folks are on the edge, but we'd like to see the data. I find people tend to get a little

January 28th, 2019Committee meeting

David Sawyer

Environment committee  Farms could get credits. If farms can do methane reductions, they can generate credits. With on-farm manure and waste, if you can generate renewable natural gas, the clean fuel standard under the federal government will provide an opportunity for reductions and credits.

January 28th, 2019Committee meeting

David Sawyer

January 28th, 2019Committee meeting

David Sawyer

Environment committee  Can I address the other question?

January 28th, 2019Committee meeting

David Sawyer

Environment committee  Fair enough. Under former prime minister Harper, it was designated under CEPA, the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, as a pollutant, so yes. In terms of the last question, on farm fuels, liquid fuels are exempt, so a $1,000 carbon price will have no impact on on-farm use o

January 28th, 2019Committee meeting

David Sawyer

Environment committee  B.C. would have to raise their personal income tax rate to make up the shortfall.

January 28th, 2019Committee meeting

David Sawyer

Environment committee  It's pretty simple. Your carbon exposure in your household is a function of your building, the cars you own, and the number of people in your building. So, it's your heating, the cars you own, and then your consumption of non-energy goods. In fact, any of us could probably answer

January 28th, 2019Committee meeting

David Sawyer

Environment committee  Lower-income families are interesting. A higher percentage of their income goes to energy, so they're disproportionately exposed and there are concerns over that. Lots of jurisdictions have given out an extra bump or top-ups to low-income households, but because overall they don'

January 28th, 2019Committee meeting

David Sawyer

Environment committee  I have a quick comment. Policy interactions always go on. Prime Minister Harper's vehicle efficiency regulations and coal-fired power phase-out make it easier for the carbon price to do its job later on, because cars are more efficient and we're using less fuel. Yes, there are mo

January 28th, 2019Committee meeting

David Sawyer

Environment committee  Whether it's federally imposed and they pre-empt their provincial policies or there's bottom-up alignment.... We've done analysis in modelling going back to the national round table in 2008. We found that continued fragmentation increased the cost by about 25%. In the pan-Canadia

January 28th, 2019Committee meeting

David Sawyer

Environment committee  Good afternoon. Thank you for having me here today. My name is Dave Sawyer. I'm a senior fellow at the Smart Prosperity Institute at the University of Ottawa. I'm also a regulatory economist. I've been doing work in the last year for Liberal governments, NDP governments, and Co

January 28th, 2019Committee meeting

David Sawyer