Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I note that the minister has failed to acknowledge that any of the four modelled scenarios considered a scenario where major emitters did not sign up to a world pact on carbon pollution reduction. Will the minister confirm that the Treasury modelling for the CPRS assumes that the following countries act in concert with Australia from 2010: the United States, which currently has no emissions trading scheme and is grappling with a $1 trillion budget deficit; Canada, where Prime Minister Harper recently won an election campaign campaigning against a carbon tax; and New Zealand, where Prime Minister-elect Key has vowed to wind back Labor’s ill-considered and rushed ETS, to name just a few examples?