Environment committee  I think I'd echo some of the comments that have come up, which is that every province has very different circumstances, so carbon pricing gives not only a broad policy tool but flexibility in what to do with revenues. It also gives people a lot more flexibility in how they indivi

Environment committee  I think it's worth noting that in the previous full year of data the four provinces with carbon prices in place had the fastest-growing economies in Canada. It's not a causal statement, but it certainly is really powerful against the idea that carbon pricing could cause a recessi

Environment committee  Maybe I will swing back in on that. I think one of the things that we've certainly felt in Alberta is the cost and impacts on growth of non-carbon pricing policy. We saw Keystone XL as a prime example of that. The policies imposed on us externally have way higher cost. To Nick'

Environment committee  I think it's important to draw a line between whether some of their emissions are off the books or exempt from coverage versus whether they receive some emissions credits for free. The important difference between those two is that, in the system proposed federally, in the system

Environment committee  I'll start, and then others with more models can.... I don't think that was the message. I think the message was that the impacts would be fairly small. Most economic modelling shows, in some cases, small negative impacts on trend but not at the scale that we've heard talked abo

Environment committee  The protocol you're looking for is land use, land use change and forestry as part of the emissions inventory. It will probably be right near the bottom of the table where they account for sequestration, forest lands and land use, including agriculture, by the way.

Environment committee  The piece I would add is that it's not just about other countries having carbon constraints but about where your capital is coming from. That's something we've seen in many aspects in Canada—the pressure we're under internationally to lower our emissions, improve our performance,

Environment committee  On the low income...?

Environment committee  I don't have solid numbers on Ontario. I did bring some Alberta numbers, where we now see about 40% of households in Alberta ending up better off overall as a result of the rebate. It's a lower percentage than when the price was first put into effect because the government hasn't

Environment committee  Demand curves slope downward, so yes.

Environment committee  It's not necessarily going to change the problem where you're not finding people for the job, or the salaries you're offering. A carbon tax isn't going to make that happen. Where carbon tax is going to play is that it creates a market for those better technologies. It rewards com

Environment committee  Let's stick with the substantive policy questions.

Environment committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. Thank you for inviting me today. It's a pleasure to be here to make the case in favour of carbon pricing and to dispel some of the myths I think we've seen out in public on these policies. By way of introduction, I'

Finance committee  Sure. You come back to the question of revenue neutrality, or how I prefer to think about it is, are we increasing or changing the overall size of government? There's really one policy on the table that will allow you to both implement strong incentives for green innovation an

Finance committee  If we want to talk about practice versus theory, you brought up the specified gas emitters, which is a carbon price on large emitters where the funds are not revenue neutral. They went to a government-sponsored fund, very similar in design to the Turning the Corner plan that was