Your carbon emissions are about to cost you more.

Ontario has pulled back the curtain on its cap-and-trade scheme and it’s already anticipating a financial hit on residents and businesses.

Cap and Trade Program Design Options, a discussion paper sent to 200-plus stakeholders Friday, says the money the government makes from pricing carbon could be used in part on assistance programs.

“Ontario will reduce the overall cost to households and business by investing in energy retrofits and low carbon transportation options,” the paper says, suggesting Ontarians will get more public transit to offset the added cost of everything manufactured or moved in ways that produce lots of carbon emissions, such as trucking.

The government wants a response to its discussion paper by Dec. 15. The discussion paper suggests a Jan. 1, 2017, start date with a requirement of a 3.7% drop in emissions every year.

“Cap and trade will be the primary tool for achieving Ontario’s 2020 targets,” the document says.

The government is considering applying the cap to a broad number of industries. Such a move would impact average Ontarians through the price they pay for goods and services — everything from filling up the tank to buying bread to charging a cellphone.

The government says the payoff is the long-term reduction of carbon emissions, which contribute to a dangerously warming planet.