Finance committee   with any type of analysis. I'll give you an example. Tiff Macklem, the Governor of the Bank of Canada, was able to give us a number. He said that the carbon tax added about 20% to inflation. That was a hard number. There are a lot of economic factors, but he was able to do that. Any

Finance committee   before granting health funding. They imposed a carbon tax on provinces that didn't meet carbon-reduction targets. Bill C-69 imposed such intrusive conditions on resource development that the Supreme Court ruled the law unconstitutional. The Liberals decided that national priorities

Carbon Pricing   Canadian courts would accept. In just a few weeks, we have seen the Prime Minister admit his carbon tax is making life unaffordable for Canadians. The courts have struck down the Liberal law that claimed the federal government could impose its impact assessment on kids' lemonade stands

Carbon Pricing   to the charge that now the tax is unconstitutional. The parliamentary secretary has not addressed this. My constituents are still suffering from a higher carbon tax than Canadians have in Atlantic Canada. How can he consider that fair?

Carbon Pricing  Madam Speaker, I am glad to be able to rise, following up on my question from a few weeks ago about the so-called carbon tax exemption being provided on home heating oil, which only 3% of Canadians are going to be able to enjoy, and only with the condition that it is for just

Carbon Pricing   that Alberta produce a similar piece of legislation. A headline on a recent article from Trevor Tombe says, “How Alberta can benefit from a provincial carbon tax”. He believes, “Whatever your priorities, using carbon tax revenues to achieve them requires Alberta [to] take back control

Finance committee   to carbon pricing. The challenge to the Liberals' carbon tax went all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled that the government had the authority to implement the tax. Just because the Supreme Court says you can do something doesn't mean you should. What happened next

Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, 2023   and heavy equipment. All these things are very carbon-intensive. If the Liberals actually wanted to help Ukraine rebuild, why would they have put a carbon tax into a trade agreement for the first time ever? Does my colleague think this is actually going to help with the cost

Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, 2023  Madam Speaker, no, I do not think a carbon tax in a free trade agreement is going to help Ukraine rebuild whatsoever. It will need the lowest cost and the most environmentally friendly energy possible. It can get that from Canada, yet we have a government that is throwing up red

Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, 2023  Madam Speaker, the carbon tax has now become one of the most hated and reviled taxes in all of Canadian history. When we talk about exports, it is quite interesting that the government has decided to export a carbon tax into a trade agreement for the first time ever. In all

Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, 2023  Madam Speaker, in terms of the carbon tax, one of the things the Liberal government fails to understand is that nobody else is doing this. Our trading partners certainly are not. It is a complete and total competitive disadvantage for what we are doing. If we just look at where

Finance committee  On a point of order, I believe he's talking about the bill that would provide a carbon tax exemption for farmers who are drying grain using fossil fuels. He may know that New Democrats supported that legislation, and that's why it's in the Senate, because New Democrats voted

Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, 2023   concerning reports that some of these folks may want to leave Canada due to the incredibly high cost of living. We all know the cost of living crisis was created by the Liberal government's inflationary spending, lack of a housing plan and its signature failure of the carbon tax. All

Finance committee  Absolutely, Chair. We're talking about division, and I think it's important that folks understand the carve-outs that have happened with respect to the carbon tax around this country. That has created significant division, and the division, of course, is related directly

Finance committee   significantly affected by the divisive carbon tax and the negative impact it's had on the people I represent. Certainly, it is a time when we have had more outcry from citizens on one policy than anything else, mostly because, of course, they cannot afford to heat their homes or house