Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  That's right, Mr. Holland. The legislative structure is there, and we need the programs and the regulations and the targets and the policies that are actually going to do the work to get us where we need to go.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  That's absolutely right. Some of these new measures could conceivably be included in Bill C-30 through amendments. It's clear that the existing provisions of Bill C-30 are nowhere near what's required to put a comprehensive national plan in place.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Yes, there's no revenue impact.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  The revenues that are raised are offset by decreases in other taxes.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  There are a number of options for what you can do in terms of what you do with the revenues. Certainly, they could be earmarked for programs to reduce emissions. They could be used to reduce other taxes, including payroll taxes, income taxes, or the GST, or the revenues could als

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  That's absolutely right. One option would be to impose a carbon tax and then take the revenues and distribute those revenues right back to Canadians in the form of an annual cheque. What that would do is create an incentive right across the economy to reduce emissions, so that yo

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Sorry, on air pollution or on climate change?

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Well, I guess we need to recognize that climate change is a problem that is caused by all sectors of the economy. We need to put policies in place that are going to address emissions from all sectors of the economy. That would include some form of carbon tax, which is possibly co

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  The penalty that's currently established under the Kyoto Protocol is that 30% of the amount that you missed your previous target by is added to your emissions reduction target for the next period.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Correct.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Well, sir, the problem is that under the Kyoto Protocol there is a mechanism called the “clean development mechanism” that establishes the process that has to be gone through for certifying international credits as compliant with the Kyoto regime, and the architecture of that pro

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Thank you. I think it's really important to distinguish between our participation in Kyoto and Canada's inability to meet one specific aspect of our participation, and that is the 6% target. That does not, in any way, mean that we are no longer participants in the Kyoto Protocol

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  That's correct.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I'd give them an F. But I'd also like to respond to your question to Mr. Erasmus to clarify that everything you pointed out that the government is able to do on indoor air and bio-monitoring, in terms of reporting on pollution to Canadians, already exists under the Canadian Envi

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  As I said, I think a carbon tax offers certain advantages in the sense that it's less easily manipulated by the participants. The reason the European trading system is having problems is that businesses convinced governments that they needed more permits than they actually did, a