here is the answer on the cap and trade I asked about a few days ago.
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Thanks for the question. Currently Alberta, BC Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec are working with a number of US states to implement a cap and trade program.
In the Liberal platform the money raised through the auctioning of credits under the cap and trade system will stay in Alberta. It will be invested through partnerships with the province and industry in technologies and science to reduce green house gas emissions and ensure the protection of water. It will create jobs, many of them green, in Alberta, and technologies that can be exported to the world. A recent CD Howe study confirms that this kind of policy can in fact be implemented without cash outflows from the provinces in which money is collected.
Moreover, the Liberal cap and trade policy will apply evenly and fairly to all sectors of the economy across the entire country. The oil sands will not be singled out.
I am meeting with members of the oil and gas industry to better understand and communicate on this issue. Is this helpful? If you have specific questions I will raise them with the party and the industry experts myself, and get back to you.
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