Environment committee  I certainly do. We need to have R and D in areas that are not going to play a role in the next 10 years but will later on. I will say that with those low-hanging fruit parts of the equation, that's 80% of our emissions. That will take us a lot of the way there, and then some ex

Environment committee  We should be doing R and D, but we shouldn't be making climate plans assuming that will pay off. Oil and gas companies shouldn't be doing R and D. NRCan has $400 million to do that. If the tax credit is only for cement, or some of these R and D purposes, that's okay to go ahead,

Environment committee  I think it's incredibly important that we don't take away subsidies that give energy security to indigenous nations. To put that in context, out of the $18 billion, it was $3 million. I would say that $3 million should stay. Out of the $8.6 billion, it was $2 million. That $2 mil

Environment committee  Yes, they are. It's just that no one has been able to quantify them, because it's a really onerous tax. We leaned on the work of CICC to get some of our numbers, but it's an enormous fossil fuel subsidy. It's a tax break.

Environment committee  We are calling for exactly that, a binding commitment, since we're 13 years in, and we've seen very little action on this. We also need those green streams. In addition, we haven't talked about cancelling TMX. That's one of the most egregious examples of fossil fuel subsidies

Environment committee  When they go to oil and gas companies.... There's this notion—Minister Wilkinson has said this a lot—that, if you're paying an oil and gas company to decrease their emissions, it's not a fossil fuel subsidy. It's confusing to me. That is lowering the cost of business. It's leavin

Environment committee  The oil and gas sector is the most subsidized sector. I can't compare it to fertilizer and manufacturing because no one has done the work of documenting those subsidies. That speaks to a lack of transparency. We do the work of documenting fossil fuel subsidies as an NGO, but the

Environment committee  I'm banking on countries taking climate change seriously. Canada is a laggard; we're not a leader on this. More generally, Canada has the dirtiest oil in the world—the fourth dirtiest in the world. This came through in the ERP, this idea that we could have the cleanest and most c

Environment committee  For sure, we have to phase out subsidies at both the provincial and federal levels. The difference is that almost all of the subsidies at the federal level are production subsidies, and at the provincial level you have a mix of production and consumption subsidies, and not so at

Environment committee  The EDC has a tremendous role to play in helping emerging Canadian companies take advantage of opportunities in both Canada and internationally. It's an export credit agency, but its mandate has been really reformed to focus at the domestic level, so there is a tremendous opportu

Environment committee  It would certainly be better, without a doubt, and I have to speculate on the impacts, but I imagine better jobs. We know that investments in renewable energy are just much better in terms of the job creation potential. There is cleaner air, and communities are further along, hav

Environment committee  I have a number that was put forward by the Canadian Medical Health Association five years ago, and it was $53 billion each year—

Environment committee  —in health costs, because of burning fossil fuels.

Environment committee  One thing we had in our report was a case study of Suncor to quantify the level of subsidy through exemptions and carbon pricing. Suncor should have paid $880 million in 2020, based on the amount of carbon pollution it had. It only paid $59 million. That's a $770 million subsidy

Environment committee  I agree that we have to do—