Questions and responses 45th Parliament, 1st session May 26, 2025, to present

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?

With regard to the government's decision to work collaboratively with Alberta to implement carbon pricing for large Alberta emitters in both the oil and gas and electricity sectors and ramp up to a minimum effective credit price of $130 per tonne of emissions: (a) what are the proposed effective dates for a minimum effective credit price of $130 per tonne of emissions; (b) what is the price trajectory to $130 per tonne of emissions and beyond, through 2050; (c) what is the effective cost per tonne of carbon emissions paid in Alberta for each of the major emitting sectors (on average for each sector) for each year that the price has been in effect to date and the projections to 2050; (d) what financial mechanisms are being considered “to ensure both parties maintain their respective commitments over the long term to provide certainty to industry, and to achieve the intended emissions reductions”; (e) what is the impact of this decision on the modelling of greenhouse gas emission projections, for each emission projection scenario and for all milestone years from 2026 to 2050 and what are the details, including (i) the different estimated costs per tonne for each year from 2026 to 2050, (ii) the economic impacts for the different costs per tonne, (iii) the environmental impacts (green house gases, biodiversity, water, etc.), (iv) the health impacts (economic costs, health problems, morbidity, premature deaths, etc.), (v) any other impacts; (f) for all documentation related to this decision, including scientific opinions, briefing notes, studies and briefs used by or provided to the Privy Council Office, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, the Department of Finance Canada, the Cabinet and the Prime Minister's Office, what are 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?

With regard to government advertising since March 14, 2025: how much has been spent on advertising relating to the carbon tax, the price on carbon, or the Canada carbon rebate, in total and broken down by subject of advertisement, by type of advertising (broadcast, internet, etc.) and by platform, if applicable?