Environment committee  They really are amazing technologies that are ready to reach scale, and in want of the right policy signals to pull them through the system.

Environment committee  They're all described in there.

Environment committee  Okay, I'll give you a quick answer on it. I'm going to try to hit on a couple of points. When we talk about passing on the costs to consumers or to producers, what we're always referring to, as economists, are any of the costs that society would otherwise bear. You internalize t

Environment committee  The market will add them to the cost of the product through these tools, yes. Consumers need to be activated and to be given choices. There's decent evidence that if they are given choices at comparable prices, they will choose the less wasteful. Sorry, did you want to get in,

Environment committee  Given the time, Usman, do you want to lead this one off?

Environment committee  I'm not sure he's hearing this, so let me get started. I think there are a few areas where the federal government can play a really valuable role. Some are on the harder, more regulatory side, and some are on the softer, more suasive and market-oriented side. For what you did on

Environment committee  Wonderful. Thank you for the opportunity to appear. The Smart Prosperity Institute is a clean economy research network and think tank at the University of Ottawa. We've appeared in front of this committee and the Senate committee on issues such as this quite regularly. Carbon p