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Q-688
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Monday, December 8, 2025 |
With regard to the government's decision to set federal fuel charge rates at zero as of April 1, 2025, and to eliminate the requirement for provinces and territories to implement carbon pricing for consumers: (a) for all documentation supporting the government's decision, including the opinions, memos, studies and briefs submitted to Cabinet and the Prime Minister's Office, what are the details, including (i) the date, (ii) the sender, (iii) the type of document, (iv) the title of the document, (v) a summary of the content of the message; (b) for all documentation supporting the government's decision, including the opinions, notes, studies and briefs prepared by departments, including Environment and Climate Change Canada and including the Privy Council Office, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat and the Department of Finance Canada, what are the details, including (i) the date, (ii) the sender, (iii) the type of document, (iv) the title of the document, (v) a summary of the content of the message; (c) for all documentation relating to the impacts of suspending consumer carbon pricing on Canada's ability to meet its national greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for 2026, 2030, 2035, 2040, 2045, and 2050, what are the details, including (i) the date, (ii) the sender, (iii) the type of document, (iv) the title of the document, (v) a summary of the content of the message; (d) what is the modelling of Canada's greenhouse gas emissions trajectory under a scenario with consumer carbon pricing and without consumer carbon pricing; (e) for each year from 2025 to 2030, what is the federal government's estimate of the opportunity cost for provincial government revenues of setting federal fuel tax rates at zero, compared to the initially planned scenario of increasing the price on carbon pollution annually at a rate of $15 per tonne from 2023 to 2030; (f) for each year from 2025 to 2035 and by province and territory, what is the federal government's estimate of the economic impacts and the impacts on the public finances of the various parliaments of the government's decision to set federal fuel charge rates at zero, compared to the initially planned scenario of increasing the price on carbon pollution annually; (g) what is the total amount of the last quarterly payment (April 2025) of the Canada carbon rebate for individuals and small businesses and the actual cost to the federal government of this transaction; (h) what are the impacts of the "Regulations Amending Schedule 2 to the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act and the Fuel Charge Regulations: SOR/2025-107" on (i) Canada's commitments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the resulting Paris Agreement, (ii) Canada's commitments under the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework; and (i) what is the impact of eliminating the charge on annual revenues for consumers for the years 2025 to 2030, broken down by individual's income bracket, geographic location, family status, and any other segmentation criteria available for consumers? |
Awaiting response |
Monday, January 26, 2026 |
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Q-687
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Monday, December 8, 2025 |
With regard to the government's decision not to proceed with the oil and gas sector emissions cap regulations: (a) for all documentation supporting the government's decision, including the opinions, notes, studies and briefs submitted to Cabinet and the Prime Minister's Office, what are the details, including (i) the date, (ii) the sender, (iii) the type of document, (iv) the title of the document, (v) a summary of the content of the message; (b) for all documentation supporting the government's decision, including opinions, notes, studies and briefs prepared by Environment and Climate Change Canada or Natural Resources Canada, including documentation used by the Privy Council Office, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat and the Department of Finance Canada, what are the details, including (i) the date, (ii) the sender, (iii) the type of document, (iv) the title of the document, (v) a summary of the content of the message; (c) for all documentation relating to the impacts of the government's decision on Canada's ability to achieve the national greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets for 2026, 2030, 2035, 2040, 2045 and 2050, what are the details, including (i) the date, (ii) the sender, (iii) the type of document, (iv) the title of the document, (v) a summary of the content of the message; (d) what is the modelling of Canada's greenhouse gas emissions trajectory under a scenario with the oil and gas sector emissions cap policy and without the policy; and (e) what are the impacts of the government's decision not to implement the oil and gas sector emissions cap on (i) Canada's overall commitments to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the resulting Paris Agreement, (ii) Canada's overall commitments under the Convention on Biological Diversity and with regard to the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework? |
Awaiting response |
Monday, January 26, 2026 |
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Q-686
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Monday, December 8, 2025 |
With regard to the cancellation of the Department of Natural Resources program to plant two billion trees:
(a) how many trees were planted per year since the program began, for each province and territory;
(b) what was the public expenditure on this program for each year of its existence, and what was the share for each province and territory;
(c) how much greenhouse gas emissions were the two billion trees expected to remove from the atmosphere; (d) what studies were used to assess this reduction; and
(e) what are the details of any documentation supporting the decision to abolish the 2 Billion Trees Program, including scientific opinions, briefing notes, studies and briefs used? |
Awaiting response |
Monday, January 26, 2026 |
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Q-227
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Wednesday, June 18, 2025 |
With regard to the Treasury Board Secretariat and the Privy Council Office: how many unilingual English-speaking positions not requiring knowledge of French, unilingual French-speaking positions and bilingual positions exist in the federal public service, in Quebec, specifying the institution (department, branch, board, organization, agency, corporation, Canada Post, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, etc.) and the location (including the Outaouais region of Quebec)? |
Answered |
Monday, September 15, 2025 |
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Q-226
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Wednesday, June 18, 2025 |
With regard to the Treasury Board Secretariat and the Privy Council Office: what is the proportion of the federal public service whose first official language spoken is English or French among (i) the general public service, (ii) deputy and associate deputy ministers, (iii) positions at the EX-03, EX-04 and EX-05 executive levels, based on the most recent data available, indicating the date in each case? |
Answered |
Monday, September 15, 2025 |
