Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee   in the mouth of the Government of Canada. The Government of Canada, as far as I can tell, is not committed to a national carbon budget. We don't want a carbon tax. The largest tax on corporations is not the proper direction in which to go. Mr. Chair, I want to start with something else

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee   on clean air quality, cleaning up pollution, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions for the health of Canada and the health of the planet. What's being proposed in this preamble is a carbon tax. The carbon tax gives a very clear direction that there's a national carbon budget, which

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee   greenhouse gas emissions, through technologies like carbon capture and storage. What was being proposed previously by the Liberal Party was carbon taxing, and as I started to say, there was praise from the Liberals to provide a new $100-billion carbon tax on Canadians and industry. Also

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee   at it. They would know better than I. Certainly, I think my questions were asked in good faith and I expected answers to them, and I received some assurances, although not very many, to be blunt. I do still have serious concerns with this carbon tax.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Thank you, Chair. I have just two small comments. I won't argue on behalf of the Liberals too hard on this one. It's just not in my nature, generally speaking; try as I might, it's difficult. First of all, the notion of the carbon tax is something you have no choice

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee   of the Liberals' position on a carbon tax. In June 2006, deputy leader—then Liberal leadership candidate—Michael Ignatieff said, “But we also have got to have popular, practical, believable policies that may involve some form of carbon tax.” That was on June 10, 2006. Then a few months later

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee   of the country was financing the rest of the country. That would seem unfair to that part of the country. So we anticipated that. The final argument was made by the parliamentary secretary, who described this as a “carbon tax” and a “tax grab” and “buying your way out”. I don't understand

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee   to Canadians. Now what's being proposed here is the introduction of one of the largest corporate tax increases in recent history with no expectation of achieving any reductions in greenhouse gases. The Liberals' proposal of an uncapped investment account is nothing more than a carbon tax

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee   of the environment committee, said we could not include greenhouse gases under CEPA and regulate them, because that would amount to a carbon tax, and now the government is proposing to use CEPA to regulate greenhouse gases in some obtuse manner. This proposal is not for a carbon tax. I think we

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  ) and at subsection (3), that is a carbon tax and somebody has to administer the carbon tax. I would suggest it would be the government. You can call it anything you want, but it's a carbon tax of a carbon tax. So I would object on that basis.

Environment committee   that there wasn't really a sound assessment of some of the decisions made by government. When you recently introduced—I know you won't call it this, but it's essentially what it is—a carbon tax on cars with larger engines, the bigger polluting cars, did you have a list of which cars would

The Budget   do we find an auto sector strategy. Moreover, the carbon tax that is going to be imposed on vehicles that are not fuel efficient is going to impact the very middle class families that the government says it wants to help. Parents who are driving their kids to hockey, soccer

The Environment   on the carbon tax. Dr. Dolittle confirmed this week that he changed his mind and now supports a $100 billion carbon tax on Canadians. This would mean taxes of $12,000 for an average Canadian family of four. We know Dr. Dolittle and the radical left now support thousands of dollars in new

Government Operations committee  I'll say it on the record: I prefer not to have a carbon tax; I'd prefer to let senior citizens have a decent price for energy. But I want to talk a bit. I'm a little more familiar with Alberta's Built Green program for residential buildings. But I can see

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, The Globe and Mail reports that the Liberal environment critic has praised a carbon tax that would cost Canadian families $100 billion, yet the Liberal leader has stated that he is opposed to a carbon tax. They flip and they flop. Could the Minister