Natural Resources committee  If I knew the answer to that, I'd be a much wealthier man than I am, and I wouldn't be a professor. There are certainly some technologies on the horizon. I'm talking more about production than consumption, because they're obviously completely different technologies. The demand f

Natural Resources committee  Sure, I'll jump into the fray. I have some slides here, which should pop up any second now. I think there is some version of these in English as well As the chair noted, I'm a professor at the University of Ottawa. I head the university's interdisciplinary environment institute

Environment committee  Sure.

Environment committee  Ballpark? Sure.

Environment committee  Sure. If it were just.... Let's say something went to trial and appeal level, so two levels of court. Normally they would be under $100,000, but they're often over $50,000.

Environment committee  Sure. I guess I would start by saying that I don't think Quebec, Ontario, the Yukon, and NWT would agree this is a U.S.-style approach, but--

Environment committee  It doesn't, really. The right to sue in Quebec is probably stronger than this--

Environment committee  I would say the single most important thing we could do would be to put a price on carbon.

Environment committee  No, it doesn't involve regulation. It involves taking something that imposes a real cost on society and actually requiring those who impose that cost to pay the true cost they create. So actually, it involves fixing what Milton Friedman called the single greatest market failure t

Environment committee  It's actually a fiscal process.

Environment committee  Yes, increasing environmental monitoring and.... There are sort of two parts of the equation, right? As David Boyd said, you need to have effective standards and economic incentives and you need to enforce them. So you want to have both sides.

Environment committee  How long do you have?

Environment committee  I guess I would say no, but let me actually explain why. This is really an onus of proof, I guess, rather than a burden of proof, and this is fairly common in the kinds of public regulatory prosecution standards coming out of R. v. Sault Ste. Marie in Canada. So in this case, t

Environment committee  It depends on what the negative is.

Environment committee  I can show you my passport; it was never stamped in Spain. I mean, I can't prove with certainty, but I can prove to you on a balance of probabilities I've never been to Spain. I couldn't prove it 100%. If someone said I wasn't responsible for the Syncrude tailings pond discharge,