Environment committee  Thank you, Chair. Having been in committees for 14 and a half years, and I was also the chair of the Standing Committee on the Environment. I do have a bit of experience on this. The tradition is that the minister would come for the budget. Tradition is that the minister would c

Environment committee  I live in British Columbia. It was suggested that emissions would have gone up even more. Could you provide the study that supports that? I've heard the opposite—that it had no effect. The fact is that emissions have grown in British Columbia, and the carbon tax has had zero impa

Environment committee  I think you said the accounting to support the programs was revenue-neutral. You're saying that the administrative cost is zero: 90% is sent back and 10% is saved for green projects. In your accounting, the administrative cost is zero. Is that what I'm hearing?

Environment committee  Okay, so I am hearing that there is zero allotment for administrative cost in the program, that 90% is being sent back and 10% is being saved. That is what I'm hearing. Is that correct?

Environment committee  That was the point I made. If you have a program that is zero.... In a bureaucracy, whether for local government, provincial government, or federal government, there is a cost associated with running a program and having expert people who advise us and run programs. There is an a

Environment committee  Will it cause flights within Ontario to be more expensive than from Quebec, inter-province?

Environment committee  Will it be more expensive?

Environment committee  This is all the industries in Canada. Air Canada, Air Transat, Jazz Aviation AP, and WestJet are saying this is going to make life more expensive in Ontario, and they're opposed to it. Are you aware of that?

Environment committee  Thank you. I spent 14 years in local government as a councillor, and if there was a million-dollar project, 20% was allotted for administration. On a million-dollar project, $200,000 would be administrative, and then you would budget and you would not go over budget. You hopefu

Environment committee  I hope we can invite them. Thank you, Chair.

Environment committee  At an appropriate time, I'd like to move that as a motion. I won't do that right now. Thank you.

Environment committee  Thank you. Maybe I'll just close by saying that to get a buy-in, Canadians need to be able to understand what's happening. I think what's being proposed has been confusing, and it doesn't seem fair that there is a tax on a tax in Canada. Thank you.

Environment committee  That wasn't my question. My question is, when an average, middle-class Canadian, or even a vulnerable Canadian who is struggling on a fixed income, goes and fills up their gas tank—to take their children to hockey practice, or a senior going to the doctor—and there's now a pric

Environment committee  I don't want to be rude, but I hope I'm not hearing that the government is going to go in the hole, increasingly going into deficit spending, so they can pay Canadians more in a rebate than what they are paying in a price on carbon. I don't think that's what you said, because it

Environment committee  How much time do I have left?