Environment committee  Thank you very much. My name is Judy Meltzer. I'm the director general of the carbon pricing bureau at Environment and Climate Change Canada.

Environment committee  That's correct. Also, incentives change. Different technologies come online—as we refer to it—at different price points, but that's correct.

Environment committee  No. We are developing a separate component for heavy industry. We're talking about industry that's emitting 50,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions a year or more. Again, this is a fairly common approach that's used in different systems, including Alberta, and in other jurisdic

Environment committee  Absolutely. But I would also point you to a lot of accessible material. The one that stands out is the really comprehensive report that was done with provinces and territories, with a lot of input from a whole range of stakeholders. It was released, I believe, in early 2016, or

Environment committee  Can I just—

Environment committee  I can't speak to the name, but what I was going to give by way of example is an indication of where this incentive might lie, just going back to the principles of how price signals work. I'll give again a coarse example, one not borne out by specific numbers. If a household rec

Environment committee  The carbon pricing bureau was established formally as a structure on April 1, 2017, I think. That said, it is made up largely of people like me, who were in the department working on related policy. While there was a structural shift to focus capacity on a particular area at a pa

Environment committee  I'd have to look. I can follow up to provide you with the specifics. The bureau itself has approximately 18 full-time employees—FTEs, as we refer to them, permanent government employees. We're a relatively small team. As I said, a lot of people worked on similar files and have b

Environment committee  No, we don't. Any of that type of work might be done by a communications branch or elsewhere, but that's certainly not part of our mandate. We have a mixture of legislative policy and regulatory and technical work that's under way in our group.

Environment committee  I can't comment on any polling that may have been done. That's well beyond my area.

Environment committee  In this first instance, provinces were given until September 2018 to indicate their plans. We have indicated where the federal system will apply going forward. In a letter from Minister McKenna and Minister Morneau to their provincial and territorial counterparts in December 201

Environment committee  Absolutely. The study I'm referencing is one that was undertaken by Nic Rivers, and we'll be happy to provide the reference.

Environment committee  If I may, just to clarify, you were referring to British Columbia. The federal system will not apply in British Columbia. That was already reiterated. British Columbia has had a system in place, and it was assessed as meeting the federal requirements.

Environment committee  That's correct, yes. That assessment, those common criteria, is an annual process.

Environment committee  I'm not speaking about consensus with stakeholders per se. I'm speaking about the economists—including the most recent Nobel Prize-winning economists—the various expert panels that have been put together on sustainable financing, and the World Bank's initiative of the Carbon Lead