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Finance committee I'm a health care person. I'm not a carbon-tax expert. However, generally, people who are most marginalized receive most of their benefits through the delivery of the tax system, and not everybody files taxes. Anything that can be done to help reduce the burden on people right
November 14th, 2023Committee meeting
Scott Courtice
Finance committee and carbon tax from home heating?
November 14th, 2023Committee meeting
Philip LawrenceConservative
Finance committee The fact is that 90% of Canadian production is in Quebec, where there are carbon offsets, and 10% of production is in British Columbia, where there is a carbon tax. So both systems are in use. The important thing for us is predictability, which is the word that has been used
November 13th, 2023Committee meeting
Jean Simard
Finance committee , they decided to restrict the availability of vehicles because they could then increase prices. That contributed to inflation, but it has nothing to do with the carbon tax.
November 13th, 2023Committee meeting
Francis ScarpaleggiaLiberal
Finance committee , it's a market mechanism. That said, there are significant differences between carbon offsets and a carbon tax…
November 13th, 2023Committee meeting
Marc-André Viau
Finance committee I'm going to go back to the question on the carbon tax. It's been raised in the House of Commons. The inflation rate in Canada was recently 3.8%. We've been reminded that it was higher in Quebec, at 4.8%. In this context in which the inflation rate in Quebec is greater than
November 13th, 2023Committee meeting
Francis ScarpaleggiaLiberal
Finance committee In 10 seconds, would you please tell me whether the Quebec government's carbon tax is hurting Quebec's economy?
November 13th, 2023Committee meeting
Francis ScarpaleggiaLiberal
Finance committee future generations, our grandchildren, a chance to live on a healthy, clean and tolerable planet. In the short term, that means a stop to partisan battles over issues like the carbon tax. You must absolutely present a budget that will enable you to say, in 10 or 20 years, that you
November 13th, 2023Committee meeting
Paul Crête
Carbon Pricing , borrowed all of the money and printed all of the money it can. That is why our country is in the condition it is in. The Liberals do not get it, and their gimmicks are not helping Canadians. The Prime Minister has admitted he is doubling down on the quadrupling of the carbon tax
November 9th, 2023House debate
Cathay WagantallConservative
Carbon Pricing Mr. Speaker, I rise today to follow up on a question I raised in the House on November 1 in response to the government’s announcement that excludes 97% from the three-year suspension of the carbon tax. Constituents from my riding of Yorkton—Melville are appalled by this blatant
November 9th, 2023House debate
Cathay WagantallConservative
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee to not even talk about those directly concerned. That is one thing. Then, the issue is the carbon tax. Obviously, other chiefs will talk about climate change and the repercussions on their communities. I would like to see that in the motion. We have been able to address this a few times
November 9th, 2023Committee meeting
Marilène GillBloc
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee because of the carbon tax. We have heard from first nations, Métis and Inuit leaders across Canada that it is a challenge for their communities. An article from this week was entitled “Ontario Indigenous group wants exemption to carbon tax”. It says, “Chief Abram Benedict says policy
November 9th, 2023Committee meeting
Bob ZimmerConservative
National Security Review of Investments Modernization Act in addressing the world's expanding use of coal with LNG. That would do more than any carbon tax ever will, as the record of it is showing, in reducing world greenhouse gas emissions. It was predicted 10 years ago that we would reach peak coal. We set a record in coal consumption
November 9th, 2023House debate
Dave EppConservative
National Security Review of Investments Modernization Act Minister did show us that the Liberal government can go back, as it adjusted the carbon tax on home heating fuel in Atlantic Canada and in rural Canada. The government demonstrated it can reverse course after identifying a mistake. That, of course, was in response to polling
November 9th, 2023House debate
Dave EppConservative
National Security Review of Investments Modernization Act , just last week, a climb-down on the carbon tax for home heating for some Canadians in some parts of the country. Not all mimicking is bad, but at the end of the day, as my fellow Manitoban colleague from Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman said, “The Liberals are tired, they are weary
November 9th, 2023House debate
Branden LeslieConservative