Environment committee   up this fight? If you plan to show weakness by hiding behind distractions such as the carbon tax or other issues unrelated to our waters, please give way to someone strong enough to stand up for our waters. Water is life.

Business of Supply   and across the country. The Conservatives are still pathologically obsessed with the carbon tax, which is really a price on pollution. When we talk about a price on pollution, we are clearly talking about the environment, climate emergencies and the climate crisis. Speaking

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, it is wild to me that the member would mislead his own constituents and British Columbians across our province, because guess what. British Columbia has a provincial carbon tax. This motion has nothing to do with helping out British Columbians. It does not have

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I would ask the member to stop misleading British Columbians. This has nothing to do with them, since there is a provincial carbon tax that was brought in by a conservative premier. I hear him talk about the NDP versus the Conservatives, but we are the only party

Business of Supply   the Parliamentary Budget Officer with us. He clarified for I think the millionth time in this place that 0.15% of food inflation could be attributed to the carbon tax, whereas 3.5% was attributed to drought, disease and an unpredictable growing season. It really is the climate impacts we need

Carbon Tax   inability to control spending. None of the Conservatives' common-sense demands have been met, one of them being the cancellation of any further increase in the carbon tax. After eight years, it is clear that the Prime Minister is not worth the cost. Who else is not worth the cost? I

Business of Supply   that doing away with the carbon tax in the provinces where it does apply would benefit households that earn more than $250,000 a year. I would like to hear my colleague from Jonquière's comments on that.

Finance committee  . Two million Canadians are going to a food bank in a single month in just eight years. There's a 100% increase in food bank usage, and a third of those are kids who are starving because of high taxes like the carbon tax and other factors caused by your government. The number one

Finance committee   that food costs are going up, driven up also by your carbon tax because you're taxing farmers and those who are shipping the food and storing the food. The number of people going to a food bank is increasing because of food costs and housing costs caused by your government. Eighty-three

Business of Supply   the price of groceries is going to go up $700-plus this next year. We already know they are quadrupling the carbon tax on families, first nations and farmers. This individual does not understand how agriculture works. He is making our farmers less competitive. He is going to make sure

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I have been listening to the debate since this morning, and, as a Quebecker, I feel completely left out. Yet again, the House is debating the carbon tax, which does not apply in Quebec and has nothing to do with Quebec. Furthermore, I am wondering how the Quebec

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I listened closely to the member for Winnipeg North giving his speech on our opposition day motion to eliminate the carbon tax for farmers, first nations and families. He indicated that Stellantis and Volkswagen were getting significant federal contributions

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, the answer is approximately 133 first nations. That is the number taking the government to court because the carbon tax violates their constitutional rights. Now first nations are fighting the Prime Minister in court again. They are forced to spend their limited

Business of Supply  moved: That the House call on the Liberal government to immediately repeal the carbon tax on farmers, First Nations and families.

Agriculture committee  No, we don't. Part of the reason for that is that we don't pay the carbon tax, based on where we are in the value chain in terms of any impact on food. I can't speak with any real knowledge about that subject, although I've no doubt that anything that increases the cost or puts