The Environment  Mr. Speaker, the Liberals cannot seem to get their stories straight on their massive new carbon tax. Yesterday the member for Halton confessed that the Liberal plan was--

Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada   and tells his caucus to sit on their hands or not even bother showing up. With the details emerging about the Liberal plan to gouge Canadians with a carbon tax and a Liberal caucus that is obviously deeply divided and very worried about defending its tax trick during an election

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, as more details are being leaked about the Leader of the Opposition's proposed carbon tax and the great lengths the Liberals are using weasel words to conceal the real nature of this tax from the public, it is clear the party is trying to trick Canadians into paying

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, if we consider that if there were a carbon tax over four years of some 4¢, that would have an impact, I am sure, but when the Conservative government took office the price of gasoline was 65¢ a litre. It is now $1.35 under the government's watch, so there we go

Agriculture committee   are not saddled with a carbon tax, which would further increase their input costs and hurt their competitiveness vis-à-vis their American competitors.” Mr. Chair, since we're studying input costs, I think it's critical that we discuss this at the earliest possible point in time. I have

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, the Liberal leader has admitted he cannot set priorities and has made tens of billions of dollars in non-budgeted spending priorities. To fund his spending promises, he is trying to trick Canadians into paying a permanent new carbon tax he once vehemently opposed.

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, I can assure the member that the government has no intention of imposing new taxes on Canadians of any sort. However, I wish I could say the same of the Liberal opposition. It was only last year that the leader of the opposition said there will be no carbon tax

Gasoline Prices   their own money. That is unlike the Liberals, who are going to raise taxes by imposing a carbon tax on Canadians. It is going to cost the Liberals billions of dollars per year to pay for the promises that they have not budgeted.

Public Safety   to ask questions about this instead of asking questions about public policy issues. Today, for the first time after us talking about it for weeks, the Liberals were finally prepared to talk about their carbon tax, and I am not surprised because they come from a party that really liked

The Environment   has been more honest about this than his boss has been, because the deputy leader of the Liberal Party said two years ago: We've also got to have popular, practical, believable policies that may involve some form of carbon tax. That means one thing and one thing only: higher

The Environment   taxes, yet imposed the biggest tax increase in Ontario's history. Now, we are hearing about another plan to raise taxes: the carbon tax. This is a Liberal Party scheme that Canadians will not go for.

The conomy  Mr. Speaker, in this time of economic uncertainty, the Liberal leader is considering a tax on production. I remember that, on October 10, 2007, in a speech to the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce, he declared, “—there will be no carbon tax—”. That is further proof that the Liberal

Income Tax Act   on. The northern mayors in British Columbia were outraged at the idea of a carbon tax because, of course, northerners have to consume more, things cost more and they pay higher taxes. When we offer up some incentives in the tax system, we are really trying to equalize what is going

Budget Implementation Act, 2008   a tonne, carbon tax by 2018 and no relief for anyone in terms of their plan--

Budget Implementation Act, 2008   to destroy rural Canada, it is his leader's carbon tax plan. It will destroy areas, farmers and producers in rural Canada. It is worse than any other plan since the national energy program. He talks about it being cost neutral. How can it be cost neutral for farmers who have to put crops