Environment committee  I'll go first, and others can certainly add. I think there's a lot to be learned from a number of other countries. We have gone through the experiences. Part of the benefit of the UN reporting mechanism Catherine mentioned, the regular reports, is not just having GHG informatio

Environment committee  Certainly in the European Union, they've had a trading system for quite some time, and that's been one key piece of their overall approach to pursuing emission reductions. We have seen quite significant reductions within the European Union, but in other countries as well, a growi

Environment committee  Generally, transportation tends to be a little harder, because there are a large number of diffuse sources. There are lots of good European examples. There are a lot of energy efficiency initiatives in a number of countries, particularly in Asia. Japan is a good example of a ver

Environment committee  I have just one minor thing to add: there's also the Clean Growth Hub that I think we've talked to this committee about. Companies specifically told us that because there were so many different programs and initiatives and funds, both domestically and internationally, it would be

Environment committee  I'll cover the front end, and then others can add on the international initiatives and the various trade agreements and the provisions in them. Our view at Environment Canada, speaking on behalf of my colleagues in our regulatory branch, is that the best way to avoid carbon leaka

Environment committee  I think so; that's the plan. Certainly we've seen a quite significant emission reduction so far. Our emissions are projected to go down quite significantly into the future, based on the policies that have been implemented so far. Those emission reduction projections—what's in th

Environment committee  Are you talking about the one-year target, the 2020 target from the Copenhagen conference?

Environment committee  That one is a more challenging target than the 2030 target, for sure.

Environment committee  I don't know if we're going to meet it. We'll know in 2021 when we have data on our emissions. We've been implementing a whole suite of policies as aggressively and as quickly as we can in order to generate the emission reductions in the near term that we need in order to get on

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  No. If we implement the policies within the pan-Canadian framework as designed and laid out, that will achieve the emission reductions required, particularly if you include the other important investments that are happening now in advancing clean technologies and in infrastructur

Environment committee  That's not part of the plan. The plan is as it's laid out with the regular schedule, running up to $50 a tonne by 2022. That is the plan. That's our focus. As I mentioned earlier on, this is a sequential process. We're looking to implement our policies to achieve Paris targets;

Environment committee  Sure. There are a number of things there. In terms of carbon pricing, I'm not the expert on carbon pricing. We have a dedicated team in Environment Canada that have come before this committee several times. I can't delve into any great detail on the design of the carbon pricing

Environment committee  I have maybe just a couple of quick ones. I see that the yellow flag is up. In terms of the various dollar figures bandied about, I would emphasize that those are the kinds of things that people have flagged as illustrative if you wanted to achieve the entirety of the targets.

Environment committee  I mean, every country is unique, so different countries have different distributions of emissions in terms of where their emissions come from—some very focused on electricity, others more on transportation, others more on industrial, and so on. As a broad principle, however, beca