Environment committee  Canada probably has one of the highest percentages in the world because of our large land mass, our large forests and our smaller population. That would make sense. It's also fair to say they're not considered at all under the Paris Agreement. Is that accurate?

Environment committee  As a point of order, Mr. Chair, just going back to my first question, I'd be interested if we could have the Department of Finance get back to us on where the name “climate action incentive” actually came from. I'd be curious to know the origin of the title. The payments are clea

Environment committee  It's just a request, then.

Environment committee  Maybe we can get unanimous consent to make that request.

Environment committee  Just looking at the name, one would assume that there would be some incentive to take climate action. What is the incentive part of the payment initiative?

Environment committee  You're talking about the tax part—

Environment committee  —but the government is using “climate action incentive” to refer to the payments, so what is the incentive to change behaviour, to take climate action from receiving a payment? Ms. Dzerowicz made the point that there is no requirement to actually apply for anything; you just auto

Environment committee  Just to be clear, though, the incentive doesn't refer to the charge. The incentive refers only to the payment that—

Environment committee  Yes, but the incentive is.... There was a big announcement made. Actually, I'm running out of time here, and I just want to have another question for the environment folks. This follows on Mr. Warawa's questioning about cost. One would assume the carbon pricing bureau didn't ex

Environment committee  How many staff are there?

Environment committee  You talked about consensus, but you were very clear to point out that the consensus isn't among stakeholders or Canadians; the consensus is among a small group of economists who are in favour of carbon taxes. Does the bureau do polling among Canadians to gauge where they are at i

Environment committee  You're talking about your bureau. How about within the department?

Environment committee  If you could endeavour to find out and get some information to the committee regarding that, it would be fantastic. I'll just reference a few points made by some members of the committee. Mr. Fisher said that carbon pricing is “not only a little confusing; it's extremely complex

Environment committee  My question is for Mr. Jovanovic. The climate action incentive initiative is referring to the payments to Canadians. Is that right?

Environment committee  I'm seeing that the meeting was scheduled until 5:30, which is the normal time. Why would we be ending half an hour early?