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Finance committee As we've said over the past few weeks as details of the pending legislation have been leaked out, we're always glad to see a shift away from voluntary mechanisms, which is what the government has said it will do with this legislation. What does concern us is the considerable leng
October 16th, 2006Committee meeting
Pierre Sadik
Finance committee Yes, it was introduced in the U.K. in 2002. It's been meeting its targets of both reducing greenhouse gas emissions and reducing fuel costs for employees and employers.
October 16th, 2006Committee meeting
Pierre Sadik
Finance committee I haven't seen switch green introduced anywhere. In essence, it supplies that model to the Energy Star appliances we're all familiar with. But where there is currently a small price gap between the efficient Energy Star appliance and the inefficient non-Energy Star model, we try
October 16th, 2006Committee meeting
Pierre Sadik
Finance committee That's right. EnerGuide will tell you what the electricity performance is of every model, and Energy Star is a label that certain efficient models receive.
October 16th, 2006Committee meeting
Pierre Sadik
Finance committee The World Economic Forum ranking--I want to be very even-handed about this--much to my chagrin, didn't take environmental sustainability into account as one of the indices in ranking the countries on their competitiveness. Of course, in the OECD ranking we did late last year, we
October 16th, 2006Committee meeting
Pierre Sadik
Finance committee Education, or the fancy term we use for it sometimes, social marketing, is creating a positive buzz around acting responsibly in connection with the environment. In the same way that four decades ago drinking and driving was a wink-wink, nudge-nudge thing, or smoking inside was a
October 16th, 2006Committee meeting
Pierre Sadik
Finance committee That's a fantastic step in the right direction that's been coming along in harmony with the U.S. It's a fantastic step, yes.
October 16th, 2006Committee meeting
Pierre Sadik
Finance committee Actually, we have some national water quality guidelines, but they are only guidelines. They're not enforceable. So we have a patchwork quilt of provincial and municipal water standards. In far too many instances, we have no water standards at all. One solution would be to look
October 16th, 2006Committee meeting
Pierre Sadik
Finance committee It would be a domestic emission trading system. It would be a closed-loop system. Buying offshore, be it trying to buy offshore credits or offshore facilities, would not count towards the domestic emission trading system.
October 16th, 2006Committee meeting
Pierre Sadik
Finance committee In a nutshell, one solution would be a domestic emission trading system. No money would go offshore under such a system. It simply means that the government introduces a modest, declining cap on the amount of pollution each sector or industry is permitted to emit into the atmos
October 16th, 2006Committee meeting
Pierre Sadik
Finance committee Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the committee for inviting the foundation here today. For Canadians to maintain a high quality of life with continued economic opportunity, we must increase Canada's long-term competitiveness through responsible environmental policies. We'v
October 16th, 2006Committee meeting
Pierre Sadik