Environment committee  It's something we certainly could look at.

Environment committee  I'm not sure whether it was by design or by accident. To be able to answer that with a high level of certainty, we need to ask the people who designed the incentive payment. Looking at the numbers, I would say it's due to different consumption patterns. Poorer households have l

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  Yes, that's it exactly. Tomorrow's report will quantify the price that will have to be applied to carbon emissions between 2023 and 2030 in order for Canada to meet its targets under the Paris Agreement. How will a tonne of carbon have to be priced for emissions to be reduced suf

Environment committee  We looked at elasticity, that is to say the impact of a price on the tendency of households and businesses to use or reduce the use of energy sources. Greenhouse gas emissions will decrease, but not drastically. They will decrease by 4% or 5%, I think—I don't remember the exact p

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  I probably misspoke.

Environment committee  Let's just say that I misspoke. I do that a lot.

Environment committee  The amount is fixed for the current year, but the amount for subsequent years will depend on the total amount generated by the carbon tax. It will increase as the amount generated by the government increases.

Environment committee  The amounts that will be paid in each province do not depend on income, but on the number of adults and children. The amount per adult and per child is fixed.

Environment committee  That was not part of our report. We focused on the four provinces that are part of the federal backstop. Two territories, I think, are also part of the federal backstop, but we also didn't look at these two territories because there's a lack of sufficient data for them. Unfortuna

Environment committee  That's correct.

Environment committee  It is true that there are many figures and calculations in those data. We first looked at household consumption by province and by income quintile. Those data are available from Statistics Canada, which regularly conducts surveys to determine household consumption patterns, in t

Environment committee  Sure. Obviously we looked at the direct costs through higher fuel prices and higher prices on energy that households directly consume, such as the gas they put in their cars and the heat they need to generate in winter. God knows it's been long this year. We also looked at the h

Environment committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. It's a pleasure to be here. It's my first appearance before the environment committee. I have to admit that I'm a bit nervous seeing unknown faces and not knowing what to expect yet, but so far I have a very good impre