Environment committee  Minister, you've granted major exemptions to the carbon tax, which you said yourself was for keeping jobs and businesses in Canada, but you are getting those companies and that industry on the back end with your escalating plans for a Liberal fuel standard. This is unprecedented

Environment committee  Yes, and Alberta has been a long-time leader—

Environment committee  —in emissions reduction in Canada. Will you—

Environment committee  Will you grant equivalency to the previous—

Environment committee  What specifically will be the cost per tonne imposed by the new Liberal fuel standard?

Environment committee  That's okay. My question was to you, Minister, and you made the announcement before Christmas, so I would expect that by now you would know. Of course, the reality is that you don't know the impact, because the cost-benefit analysis on your own departmental website says, quote,

Environment committee  But you announced—

Environment committee  But you announced the new fuel standard in December. You are imposing it. Your own department says you—

Environment committee  My question was, how many cents per litre will the clean fuel standard add to the cost of diesel?

Environment committee  That's okay. I'm sure you can table it to the committee later. My job is to ask you questions.

Environment committee  Here's what the concern is. This is why your position is concerning. In October, in question period, you admitted what Conservatives have been warning about the carbon tax for the entire time: that the 80% to 95% exemption from the carbon tax you've granted for large emitters—and

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Minister, in the spirit of ensuring that policy achieves outcomes, can you explain exactly the cost per tonne that will be imposed by the new Liberal fuel standard?

Environment committee  This isn't necessarily a comment on you, but insofar as the federal government has absolutely presented its carbon pricing model as the cornerstone of its action and the fact that the government's own documents from Environment suggest that the carbon tax should be $300 a tonne,

Environment committee  Thank you. I think I'll ask a couple of questions.

Environment committee  Sure. I appreciate that. I would like to go back to a couple of the issues that my colleagues were addressing around the concerns about meeting emissions reductions targets in Canada, considering that this is a global challenge and a global issue and that emissions don't respect