Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I'm recommending something that's been implemented in other countries. In at least one I know of, Iceland, which has no income tax—God forbid! That just shatters most government thinkers. They don't tax income and they don't tax work. But they do tax consumption. So at the point

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  You meet your environmental standard; you exceed that standard voluntarily at a cost to you. This is always a consideration for any business. So you have to find some other reason why you'd go beyond any standard that has been set for you, which is the level playing field—[Techni

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Quality—in other words, care for your consumer. That, in your case, is the citizens of Canada. The government's consumers of your product are us, as the citizens.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  There's no question that if you set out a target and a framework in which people can work effectively, knowing that we want to achieve the long-term objective—say, closed-loop engineering—one of the things you can do in your taxation system, the things that support doing the righ

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  That's the way to internalize those costs. This is what I'm trying to encourage you to think about when you put a framework in place for the use of the airshed, just as there are penalties in place for the use of the watershed or lands. You have to pay for it. The person who sh

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Thank you very much. I have told you that it fis a privilege to be invited. I'm a citizen of Canada. I'm not here on anybody's behalf, and I'm not representing anyone or any organization, so it is a real privilege just to have a voice in front of this committee. I have lived or