Environment committee  I didn't propose that.

Environment committee  No. I said that if a change had to be made over a 10-year period, then a high tax would be necessary as well. Over a period of 50 years, the maximum tax would perhaps be, within 40 years, $75 or $100 a tonne. Every Canadian's emissions would then be reduced considerably because o

Environment committee  First of all, just for the record, I think I was misquoted on that one. I guess you must be used to being misquoted by the press sometimes too--I don't know. But I would have used strong language in the sense of what I've already said, that if we're serious about this issue we h

Environment committee  So in terms of the year 2010 or 2012, from the view of an energy economy modeller who feels he understands the inertia in these systems, today, in 2006, a year like 2010 or 2012 is meaningless to me in terms of targets. The uncertainty in trying to do anything between now and the

Environment committee  Yes. In terms of policy, I laid this out fairly carefully in a C.D. Howe study I did two years ago called The Morning After, and again in another work I just did for the national round table. If I hear you correctly, it's not good enough to say, “Here's what we're going to have a

Environment committee  Thank you. I've been a professor at Simon Fraser University, in Vancouver, since 1986. My specialty is sustainable energy systems and energy system modelling, especially energy economy models that try to assess the costs of mitigating or reducing various externalities or other d