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Government Operations committee  Read the annex on regional development.

November 2nd, 2017Committee meeting

Peter Burn

Government Operations committee  In a previous life, I advised certain governments on this subject. Frankly, I know too much about it.

November 2nd, 2017Committee meeting

Peter Burn

Government Operations committee  I'll add a couple of things about CITT. Foreign companies will come to us before a dispute settlement to see if it can be resolved. Alluding to the Public Works situation, if we say an inquiry should go forward, they have very good people who are very serious about the reputation

November 2nd, 2017Committee meeting

Peter Burn

Government Operations committee  I'm not going to venture there.

November 2nd, 2017Committee meeting

Peter Burn

Government Operations committee  That's a very tricky question. I would have to do a legal opinion and think long and hard about the answer. I would note that if you're going to pick steel, you should be cautious. For example, in Alberta, if you were going to be looking at upstream emissions in certain other pr

November 2nd, 2017Committee meeting

Peter Burn

Government Operations committee  I'll try it first. This is going back to a previous life, not at the tribunal, but as a lawyer. I would certainly be looking to have a cap and trade system with a lot of allowances that basically free the cement—

November 2nd, 2017Committee meeting

Peter Burn

Government Operations committee  —or one would have to look to see whether you could move a government to a territorial-based—

November 2nd, 2017Committee meeting

Peter Burn

Government Operations committee  It could be a territorial principle system of levy, much as we have with the GST, whereby you would have to tax domestically generated emissions and argue.... You would need to put it on at the border.

November 2nd, 2017Committee meeting

Peter Burn

Government Operations committee  Well, yes. You would have to have a tremendous amount of knowledge, which I don't believe anybody has, as to what the level of the emission would be, or else you would be running afoul of international trade agreements, probably article 20 of the WTO. You would have to be very

November 2nd, 2017Committee meeting

Peter Burn

November 2nd, 2017Committee meeting

Peter Burn

Government Operations committee  If it were emissions, you'd have to have a standard, which would be referred to in the procurement, but we don't have that standard because we don't have the knowledge—I don't believe anybody actually has the knowledge—to be able to say that steel from there is generating x compa

November 2nd, 2017Committee meeting

Peter Burn

Government Operations committee  The theoretical question is whether the carbon tax should be on all emissions or just on domestically generated emissions, with a tax on foreign, as the HST is. I would suggest going back to see how they attempted to handle air emissions in a treaty that caused about four years

November 2nd, 2017Committee meeting

Peter Burn

Government Operations committee  I can't talk about that. That issue is before the courts right now, so....

November 2nd, 2017Committee meeting

Peter Burn

Government Operations committee  Eric, you figure out how we can stay onside.

November 2nd, 2017Committee meeting

Peter Burn

Government Operations committee  I'll let Eric start, and then I'll fill in. I've been doing this for three years. Eric's had many more years than three, so he might have a better history.

November 2nd, 2017Committee meeting

Peter Burn