Finance   and Canada's economy weaker. That is why common-sense Conservatives moved a motion at the finance committee to have Mark Carney testify. When carbon tax Carney is coronated as Liberal leader, Canadians should be terrified of his wacko policies to continue to quadruple the carbon tax

Carbon Pricing   talked about this a number of times. It is the electricity that is used, not the diesel and not the natural gas. Irrigation has a huge use of electricity. One farmer who has an operation showed me the bills, and he is up to $100,000 in carbon tax. There is a small rink in a rural

Carbon Pricing  Madam Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to talk about the carbon tax tonight with my colleague across the way. We have had a discussion before. I have a couple of definitions of rebate, just to get that out of the way first: From Cambridge, a rebate is “an amount of money

Environment committee   on the consumer carbon tax. That was our line of questioning. It was not a combination of the consumer tax and the back-end, output-based pricing tax. Combining the two totals, I think, gives the government an out that they don't really deserve, given that this is the comment that started all

Environment committee   motion, there's no question that the Minister of Environment has refused the committee's order to produce the carbon tax modelling data and assumptions and all the components of the third, most recent motion. There seems to be zero ambiguity to me, and the response was crystal clear

The Budget   balanced and get rid of all these carbon taxes.

Environment committee   department to produce information on how much the carbon tax will reduce emissions. This was the third attempt by the committee to obtain this information. In fact, it was on November 30, 2023, over 150 days ago, that the committee first ordered the production of the government's detailed

The Budget   not gone back to their prepandemic levels. Many of them incurred a lot of debt during that time and are still not able to pay it off. They are seeing just a continual increase in costs. They have the carbon tax, which is increasing the cost of everything that is transported. I am

The Budget  , spend and destroy 20 years' worth of fiscal stewardship that would have led Canada to be among the elite in the world. That is what Stephen Harper said in 2015. He also said that “imposing carbon [tax] schemes” would “[drive] up the price of everything Canadian families buy—including

The Budget   standards. They chose together to increase taxes, including the carbon tax, excise tax and payroll tax. What are the results of the Liberals being propped up by the NDP? It is a cost of living crisis that is destroying the spending power of working-class families and causing a record

The Economy  . No one can afford to live anymore. His record deficits have driven interest rates sky-high, and the dream of home ownership is simply dead. Canadians are struggling to stay afloat, and what does the Prime Minister offer? He throws them an anvil by raising the carbon tax a whopping 23

Cost of Living   borrowed money than ever before. Gas prices have increased dramatically, with some areas of the country seeing the highest prices in years, due to the carbon tax, which adds nearly 20¢ a litre. Farmers, the very people who feed Canada and the world, are having to pay thousands

Finance committee  . This amendment would allow us to undo the damage going forward with respect to the carbon tax. We wish that we could give the carbon tax relief retroactively and that the last nine years had just been a bad nightmare, but, unfortunately, it is the reality that we live in. We live

Finance committee   of carbon-based fuels in order to have people make other choices, and you have no choice but to heat your home with propane, natural gas or oil, it's inelastic. This is just basic economics. My one wish is that we could have an honest conversation about the impact of the carbon tax. I

Finance committee  Thank you very much. The confusion—and I'll be generous to my colleagues and call it “confusion”—might stem from the fact that the governor has talked about two different things. One is that he's talked about the annual increase in the carbon tax, of which he has ascribed 0.15