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

The Budget   everywhere. For us in western Canada that would be the national energy program too. That would be a carbon tax. There is no other word for it. On Thursday the minister gave me his verbal commitment that there will be no carbon tax. I say that here because I want that on the record. I

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

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?

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

The Environment   for a backdoor carbon tax by using CEPA, which is a toxic reductions bill. All of this betrays the Liberals' ignorance of the economic and energy realities of our country. Canada's emissions reduction targets under the Kyoto accord are clearly unattainable and the Liberal government's plan

Budget Implementation Act, 2005   know it will not be places where some of us come from because obviously that would not help get any vote, so let us not try and hide this. We are telling corporations that they can buy credits and contribute to the tech fund or we will fine them. We will set up a carbon tax and we

Business of Supply   the government in its approach that tax cuts should be general? One thing I have heard from Bloc members is their continual cry about carbon dioxide et cetera. They know that the most effective way to cut it is by implementing a carbon tax which would be a tax on gasoline. Does his party

The Environment   will not do. For example, the hon. member for Etobicoke—Lakeshore, an aspirant to the Liberal leadership on the weekend, says that we need some form of carbon tax, I guess some kind of new national energy program. That is something this government will never do.

The Environment   will not be able to meet our Kyoto targets by the deadline for compliance. Now the Liberal leadership candidate for Etobicoke—Lakeshore is suggesting that Canada impose an economically devastating carbon tax. Could the natural resources minister tell us what the government's position

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, I understand that the member for Etobicoke--Lakeshore is now suggesting a carbon tax on Canadians. Not only does the old Liberal Party want to spend billions of dollars buying hot air credits in Russia, to add insult to injury, it wants to impose a new carbon tax

Environment committee  Mr. Jaccard, you said that if we were serious about reducing greenhouse gas--and I look forward to reading your book, and you've already answered regarding the carbon tax in clarification. You're recommending strongly that we have a graduated scheme. My background is in local

Canada's Clean Air Act   investment in new technology, but we will not use a carbon tax, because the only people who end up paying are Canadian taxpayers and we think that they have paid enough through their health. Under a Conservative government, it will only be the polluter that will pay. Any industry

Environment committee   members want to respond to as well, because it does get into this whole issue of punishment and carbon taxes and so on. Mr. Rodriguez's new leader has been unclear on the subject of carbon tax. In fact, Mr. Rodriguez knows the failed leadership candidate, Mr. Ignatieff, supported