Budget Implementation Act, 2005   firms. It is shocking that they would even consider doing that, but they just might. On the CEPA clause, the Liberals took it out of the budget. They are going to give us a win. Where does it appear? They are going to administer this new plan using CEPA, a carbon tax on Canadians

Budget Implementation Act, 2005  , is that somehow this is a carbon tax. There is no carbon, climate or green tax. There is no tax at all. In fact, if we were to have a tax we would have to bring in new legislation. As the parliamentary secretary I want to point out to all hon. members in the House that they can put that rumour

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, the following is what three senior Liberals are saying about the environment minister's hidden Kyoto agenda to use CEPA to push a carbon tax. The environment committee chair said, “CO 2 is not a toxic risk to human health”. The finance chair said that he had

The Environment   door to push a carbon tax, or is it the present environment minister?

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, even a student in economics 101 would know the difference between a regulatory regime and a carbon tax. I am sure it is only because they want to fight Kyoto at any cost that they are so blinded and using this kind of argument. I want to quote what the Canadian

Committees of the House   that this was not the way to go. The government should not take an environment bill and sneak it in the back door under a budget and ultimately plan it to be a carbon tax. That is just not advisable. If the government had someone who understood the issue it would certainly have given that advice. I

Forestry   for these crazy carbon tax credits, why do we not use that money to help Canadian industry develop an alternative for countries like China or India so that they will no longer be dependent on burning fossil fuels and creating the CO 2 ? That is the innovative way that the Conservative Party

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, I have asked the Minister of Natural Resources on many occasions if he is considering a carbon tax. The answer has repeatedly been no. Yet a 25 member transportation panel looking at ways to reduce greenhouse gases states that transportation bureaucrats, lobbyists

Natural Resources committee   are more important than quality. You are rewarded based on the number of start-ups you do, not on how many survive and generate billions of dollars for the economy. You are rewarded on input dollars and not on output measures. We must change that kind of thinking. We must integrate

Gasoline   tax by any other name. When the Prime Minister assured Canadians last year that there would be no carbon tax, his backbenchers believed him. Canadians wanted to believe him. They have all been deceived again. Taxpayers will pay dearly for the Liberal's desperate attempt to meet its

Carbon Tax  Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Finance. Recently the former and current premiers of Alberta, as well as senior oil patch executives, voiced their concerns about the imposition of a carbon tax. When questioned by my colleague from Prince George-Peace River

Carbon Tax  Mr. Speaker, I do not think the hon. member has been listening over the last little while. The only place I have heard a carbon tax mentioned is on the Reform Party. We have never mentioned a carbon tax. We are not in the business of doing that. It seems the Reform Party is.

The Budget   that capital gains tax exemption and job creation or benefit to the country. Would he keep that? We eliminated it and we are very proud that we did. He talks about a carbon tax. He was the first person to raise the carbon tax. It is part of an ongoing study set up by the previous

Speech From The Throne   of the biggest coal mines in the country. For more than three years federal politicians, including some members of the present government, have been musing about the imposition of a carbon tax, a tax on fossil fuels which would be cleverly disguised as an environmental levy. An independent

The Environment   for his boondoggle. Now the environment minister wants to raise gas taxes or income taxes to feed his Kyoto monster. When this government made a commitment to Kyoto, we said that the only way it could reach the goals was to shut down entire industries or implement a carbon tax. Well