Finance committee  I'm not quite sure what you mean.

Finance committee  No. I guess I would say there are two issues there. One issue that I brought up in my comments was that this, to me, looks like an overall regressive tax credit. I think making it refundable would change that, but the other issue I brought up is that it is not that effective or n

Finance committee  It would continue to have a small impact on transit usage and it would continue to be an expensive way to motivate people to take transit.

Finance committee  The way I understood the comments was that my research demonstrated that there was an increase in public transit usage as a result of this tax credit, and that's correct. The reason I came to a different conclusion is that the cost of the increase—in other words, the cost-effecti

Finance committee  I can if you tell me how, yes.

Environment committee  Thanks very much for inviting me to speak to you about international leadership and pricing pollution. I am an environmental economist who studies the design of climate change policies. My research has touched on the cost-effectiveness of alternative climate change policies, th

Environment committee  I would only speak to the economic issue, which is where I have some qualifications to speak. I would echo the arguments the other two have made, which is that the economics field would suggest that we would want to have as level a playing field across the provinces as possible.

Environment committee  I'll start. I think it's important to note that the federal backstop is a backstop. It applies to provinces that don't have a similar regulation. Quebec, which has a cap and trade system, is not affected directly by the federal backstop. The cap and trade system is seen as funct

Environment committee  I have done some of the studies on British Columbia. There have been lots of other authors who have done similar ones, and they do try to grapple with the issues you're talking about. They try to say that there are all kinds of things that might affect greenhouse gas emissions or

Environment committee  Yes. Half a dozen studies have reached exactly the same conclusion. That suggests the carbon price has reduced emissions from where they would have been without the carbon price. This is not rocket science—the price of gasoline goes up, the price of natural gas goes up, and you e

Environment committee  We produce just under 2% of the world's emissions.

Environment committee  I'm not sure I can remember them all. China's about 26....

Environment committee  No, it's a little lower than that. China's ahead of—

Environment committee  We're less than 2%.

Environment committee  I don't think we can say precisely, but I would have said, in the ballpark—