Finance committee  Okay. Perhaps I'll ask you a question more related to business, then, when it comes to the carbon tax. Are you familiar with Bill C-234?

Finance committee  Okay. Bill C-234 is a bill that was presented by one of our members. It's an opposition member's private member's bill that would call for an exemption from the carbon tax for things like grain drying in agricultural operations. That bill is currently being held up

Finance committee   of government—such as increased property taxes in most municipalities, carbon taxes that affect British Columbia's business owners differently and interest-rate increases—means that businesses are being squeezed from nearly every direction. Economic headwinds are still present

Finance committee  Thank you very much. Ms. Anderson, I want to talk to you about the carbon tax for a bit. Since I was elected in 2019—and certainly since 2015—the mantra has been, “Canadians get back more than they pay.” We know that's not true. For example, business people don't get anything

Finance committee  When it comes to affordability measures for businesses—and that's really who I represent—again, it is about the layering on of taxes and affordability for small and medium-sized businesses. The carbon tax continues to increase, and our position is that it should be revenue

Finance committee   the government is doing. I think Mr. Hallan spoke to some things that are happening that maybe weren't characterized accurately. I just want to make sure that I get that message across before I get to my questions. The pause on the carbon tax is for everybody across Canada. It's not just

Finance committee  Absolutely. That would also include, I would imagine, things like their monthly heating bills and their food, like you said. All these costs are going up on a month-to-month basis. Recently we saw the government do a carbon tax flip-flop in Atlantic Canada—for about 3

Finance committee  Absolutely. We also know that this carbon tax is something that goes throughout the food chain. Are the food banks finding challenges with the amount of food they're getting now, because of the cost of groceries?

Finance committee  The Conservatives have called for the carbon tax to be completely eliminated, which would help lower the cost of gas, groceries and home heating for everyone across Canada, and especially for the people who are making the food. Do you think that would have a positive impact

Finance committee  Thank you, Chair. My first few questions will be for Mr. Bewick once again. In keeping with the theme of the carbon tax, we saw that the carbon tax was sold under the pretense that it would somehow fix the environment and put more back into Canadians' pockets than what

Finance committee   much better—but no one should invent facts. In an earlier exchange, there was an indication that our carbon tax is weakening and failing, and it's all awful. I will say to you that we continue to be very committed to a price on pollution, which we call the carbon tax. We were

Finance committee  Yes. You touched on a lot of different industries there. I think we're seeing the effects of not only the carbon tax but also multiple layers of taxation that are affecting us as an agriculture industry. We rely heavily on transporting our product to and from market, whether

Finance committee  Okay. I just want to circle back to this issue of a carve-out or pause on the carbon tax for home heating oil. I'm from Manitoba. I have never met a single person who heats their home with home heating oil. As much as the Liberals like to say that this is a national program

Finance committee   going to affect Canadians' standard of living as we go forward. Just quickly, how much do these policies around the carbon tax and other anti-energy policies cost the Alberta economy?

Finance committee  At the moment, it's just starting, so it's as much the spectre of where it ends up that is now curtailing investment and costing us opportunities already as.... When you say the carbon tax will go up to $170 in 2030, when you say you will have to slash production of the oil