Environment committee  Thinking about forests as a sink and thinking about Canada's vast forests, is there a calculation on how many emissions are absorbed by Canadian forests every year?

Environment committee  In a quantification of that?

Environment committee  It stands to reason that we could make a massive impact on our contribution to greenhouse gas emissions by tackling our forest fire problem, and yet we would get zero credit under the Paris Agreement for doing that, even if we did it year after year. Even if we produced some expe

Environment committee  That's specifically on the emissions from forest fires. I'm not talking about land use. I'm talking about the emissions from forest fires.

Environment committee  To be clear, you're talking about the forest stock, not about the emissions that are released into the atmosphere from the burning of forest fires.

Environment committee  If we could cut 150 megatonnes of emissions from smoke in the atmosphere from forest fires, we would get credit for that?

Environment committee  Okay. I have a couple of questions with the rest of my time here. On the expected revenues from the carbon tax, or the price on carbon, what are those expected to be year by year and, let's say, by next year, the first full year in effect?

Environment committee  Just overall in Canada would be great.

Environment committee  If you can provide that, it would be great.

Environment committee  Then, as you provide that, very apropos of the discussion in question period over the last couple of days, if you can provide an accounting for the amount of revenue the government would receive from HST and GST charged on top of that carbon price, that would be fantastic as well

Environment committee  I'm talking about the revenue side in this case.

Environment committee  Including the GST and HST portion?

Environment committee  Okay.

Environment committee  Thank you for taking the time to come today. I represent the biggest riding by population in the country, with some significant rural area as well: it's about fifty-fifty in Edmonton and outside of Edmonton. A pattern we noticed over the summer was that our normally clear blue s

Environment committee  Would it be accurate to say in the neighbourhood of a third of emissions in Canada would come from forest fires? A quarter to a third? It's a big number, isn't it?