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Environment committee I don't know, and I don't know that we have that analysis.
March 19th, 2024Committee meeting
John Moffet
Environment committee We'll have to look.
March 19th, 2024Committee meeting
John Moffet
Environment committee As the deputy explained, there are methodological issues and choices need to be made. I don't think it's fair to say that our system lacks integrity. There are definitely judgments that have to be made in the way that we estimate emissions. The goal is to estimate anthropogenic e
March 19th, 2024Committee meeting
John Moffet
Environment committee Any changes we make will be changes that are guided by evolution in international norms.
March 19th, 2024Committee meeting
John Moffet
Environment committee I will answer your question in English, Ms. Pauzé. The federal government has been involved in the assessment and management of toxic substances for over 30 years. In the last 15 years, the government has become a little more coordinated and centralized through the development o
March 19th, 2024Committee meeting
John Moffet
Environment committee Thanks. I have just a couple of facts, off the top. As our deputy minister mentioned, there are two important numbers that are relevant to this discussion, and they have been released by the Bank of Canada and various economists. The Bank of Canada, just last year, said that t
March 19th, 2024Committee meeting
John Moffet
Environment committee The money that you're referring to is money that has come to the department to support the implementation of those regulations.
December 14th, 2023Committee meeting
John Moffet
Environment committee It's to hire staff and to make permanent the staff that we hired to develop the regulations. We also need electronic reporting systems that we maintain. We have staff that are required to support the implementation of those systems, to answer questions, to do compliance promotion
December 14th, 2023Committee meeting
John Moffet
Natural Resources committee The CBAM would effectively impose a tariff on any imported products that are not low carbon.
September 18th, 2023Committee meeting
John Moffet
Natural Resources committee Can I just elaborate on one point? Another thing the European Union is doing, of course, is standing up a CBAM, a carbon border adjustment measure. Canada, as in so many areas, is well placed to address that because of our robust system of carbon pricing and regulations.
September 18th, 2023Committee meeting
John Moffet
Natural Resources committee I can speak to that very briefly, but I'll start by saying that the commitment is not about the Impact Assessment Agency, nor is the commitment about the Impact Assessment Act. The commitment is about permitting. In fact, the majority of projects in Canada, the majority of the in
September 18th, 2023Committee meeting
John Moffet
Natural Resources committee Yes, it's over 80%.
September 18th, 2023Committee meeting
John Moffet
Natural Resources committee I can start. I think the honest answer is that nobody knows exactly, but we know that demand for electricity is going to increase significantly. My colleague referred to an estimate of the demand doubling. The recent regulatory impact analysis statement that we issued for the cl
September 18th, 2023Committee meeting
John Moffet
Natural Resources committee I take issue with your last point. We've missed targets established by previous governments. We haven't missed any target established by this government. I also think it's important to understand that the United States' economy is starting from a very different place than Canada
September 18th, 2023Committee meeting
John Moffet
Natural Resources committee I think he's referring to previous targets established by previous governments.
September 18th, 2023Committee meeting
John Moffet