Environment committee  I think that to actually pose the question as “how far behind we are” in achieving the targets.... With due respect, I think it's the wrong question.

Environment committee  Thank you. The reason why I think it's the wrong question is that while I understand the need for any government to set a target and then try to achieve it, we can have a lot of debate about what the targets should be. What we really can't have a debate about is the need to redu

Environment committee  I will defer....

Environment committee  I am not an expert on the number of tonnes we have to go, basically because that's not our focus. Our focus is that every government in this country—every government, provincial and federal—has indicated a desire to reduce emissions. Our starting point is that if you would like t

Environment committee  I would be the wrong person, for sure.

Environment committee  Rona Ambrose speaks Portuguese.

Environment committee  Who would be the right person to do it?

Environment committee  Is there a country that explains carbon pricing better? That's a great question. I don't know the answer, honestly. I think we can do it.

Environment committee  I think we can do it. We do it by starting. Then you see which part doesn't make it, and you do it again. You keep talking about it, you keep asking questions and you keep explaining. You do it in newspapers and on talk radio, in op-eds and in television interviews. You do it whe

Environment committee  I think it is a good plan and I'll tell you why it's a good plan in three parts. You're asking about the federal backstop.

Environment committee  If the federal backstop is implemented in a province that does not have its own carbon pricing, first, it's good because it's a broad-based carbon price. “Broad-based” meaning that it applies to a big chunk of the emissions in a province. Second, it's well designed because it is

Environment committee  To have six meetings all on carbon pricing...? It sounds like a blast.

Environment committee  I'm all in favour. Whether or not you invite me, I'm all in favour. I think it is a really important issue, but it's not just in this room that we need to be talking about carbon pricing and other policies. It's out there.

Environment committee  Fair enough. We do what we can.

Environment committee  I can direct you to a report called “The Way Forward”, from April or May of 2015. Just to give you the number, if you'd like it, we did a modelling exercise—a very practical modelling exercise, Mr. Fast, but a modelling exercise nonetheless—in which we ran a horse race province