Environment committee  Politically, those four provinces that don't like the federal carbon tax have the option to design a carbon pricing plan of their own, either cap and trade or carbon tax, and to use the revenues on whatever they want. If they don't like the federal plan, they have every opportuni

Environment committee  What we've recommended doing with that 10%.... The one sector that is impacted and doesn't get something directly is small and medium-sized business. We'd recommend cutting the small business tax rate by an additional 0.5%. That would essentially use that source of revenue. Schoo

Environment committee  The government hasn't decided how it's going to deal with that.

Environment committee  It's also worth pointing out that B.C.'s GDP has been growing faster than that of any other province, and B.C.'s population has been growing. The emissions are growing at a lower rate than that of the population growth and the economic growth.

Environment committee  Yes, I would agree. In addition to the fact that it's four and a half cents a litre on gasoline—we see fluctuations at that level every month, if not every week—all the money is going back to Ontarians; 90% of it is going back directly to households as rebate cheques, and 10% wil

Environment committee  The two in 10, really, it depends on your behaviour. This is looking at averages. You could be a billionaire but drive an electric vehicle and live a very modest lifestyle and you'd save money, or you could be a low-income family and decide you want to spend all your money, I don

Environment committee  Absolutely.

Environment committee  No.

Environment committee  It's based on our domestic emissions divided by either population or GDP. The methodology is the same and it's been applied around the world in every country.

Environment committee  It does. If we sequester carbon, that would be included.

Environment committee  Because it wouldn't be....If we're—

Environment committee  No, it's only our domestic.... For our exported oil and gas, those emissions count against the country where they are consumed, not the country where they're produced. It's our production emissions that are recorded in those statistics, but these guys know more about that.

Environment committee  I think the point is that you want your innovation to be ahead of the pack. You don't want to be second or third. There's no prize for second. If you're ahead of the pack, then you're able to export your innovation around the world. That's really where we want to be. There's no

Environment committee  I'd say we're in the middle of the pack. That's not where we want to be for competitiveness.

Environment committee  No. It was 2012 when it hit $30.