Environment committee  It was $200.

Environment committee  It was $100 to $200—

Environment committee  —plus or minus 50%, I might add.

Environment committee  You're not looking at doubling the price of electricity—let's start there—or doubling the price of gas. You're not looking at anything outside the fluctuations in the gasoline market, actually. Gasoline, in 2005, fluctuated 50% plus or minus. It fluctuates on a daily basis 15%. S

Environment committee  It depends on the target. It depends on the policy.

Environment committee  For the package that I outlined to you, which would be a fairly efficient package where everyone would be required to make reductions and contributions and you'd recycle revenue and incent renewables, I think the number was 25% on electricity, around 15% for petroleum products, a

Environment committee  If you want cost-effective reductions, there are certain policy measures you have to implement. In the absence of any clear indication of what those are, I brought some ideas forward.

Environment committee  The government's plan under cap and trade, assuming it's implemented, will place a price on carbon for 50% of Canada's emissions. The question is whether that price is sufficient to hit the longer term, the deeper targets. No, it doesn't look like it is, but then again we are 13

Environment committee  Mr. Chairman, members, and guests, thank you for the opportunity to speak on the economic implications of Bill C-377. My name is Dave Sawyer. I'm an Ottawa-based economist working on issues of climate policy. I am here neither to support nor to contend Bill C-377, but rather to