Taxation  Mr. Speaker, the Liberals should really be clear with the Canadian public right off the bat about what they intend. Their carbon tax hidden agenda, like their plan to raise the GST, is a big, new, gouging, punitive, and regressive tax. It is a tax on gasoline, a tax on home

Fisheries and Oceans   money into the real needs. We have identified new resources. We are helping them reduce their expenses. We will not add a carbon tax to their fuel to put them out of business.

Price of Petroleum Products   as part of this debate. Tonight we have heard the Liberals avoid, at all costs, a discussion of their carbon tax. I will talk first about what this government is doing, what it has done and what it will do in the future for Canadians. I will then talk a bit about the alternatives

Price of Petroleum Products  Mr. Speaker, the member did not answer the question. The question was about the taxes being proposed by his leader. We are not making this up. His leader has said that he would like to apply a carbon tax. It has been in the news for two or three weeks. The Liberals seem

Price of Petroleum Products   if it is food that they are going to give up. The funny thing is that he did not talk about the Liberal plan to bring in a massive carbon tax. His leader seems to be shifting around a little and trying to find a different way to apply that tax, but from everything we understand about

Price of Petroleum Products   another carbon tax on consumers. The return of the budget bill from committee to the House of Commons highlights what the government is doing for Canadians. The bill ensures a balanced budget. It controls spending and invests in the priority areas such as the forestry sector

Price of Petroleum Products   to make the same determination for practically every other product on a daily basis. Mr. Speaker, does that sound like a really effective solution to you? As for the Liberals' suggestion to bring in a carbon tax, all that would do is drive up the price at the pump. Although I believe

Price of Petroleum Products   was concerned when I heard him accusing others of fabricating things when it seems apparent that either he does not understand his own party's policies or he has been trying to mislead Canadians. I would like to come back to this whole idea of the Liberals' carbon tax, which he has

Price of Petroleum Products   of fuel and he should be concerned about the price of fuel. However, the leader of the member's party is saying that the Liberals want to increase the taxes. They want to jump up the GST at least to 7% and maybe higher. They want to introduce a carbon tax which is better known as a gas

Price of Petroleum Products   market. It is not just us saying that. We should listen to some of the other ones, other voices of credit. Greenhouse Emissions Management Consortium warned that carbon tax shifts the burden from the richest to the poorest families because most of the energy purchases of low

Price of Petroleum Products   of gasoline is set, but one thing we know for sure, one thing that is a given, is that the Liberal Party of Canada will raise the price of gasoline to historic highs, to $2.25 a litre. The Liberal leader has already announced it. He has floated the idea of a carbon tax. The Liberals

Price of Petroleum Products   of high energy costs on Canadian businesses and all sectors of the economy. Higher gas prices and a higher cost of living affect us all, especially those who are just getting by. Unfortunately, the opposition does not get it. Not only has the Liberal leader called for a carbon tax

Price of Petroleum Products  They are calling out “rubbish”. The leader of the Liberal Party today is calling for a massive carbon tax.

Price of Petroleum Products  I hope I am wrong and that is not their policy, but that is not what the Liberal leader has been saying for the last two weeks in the media. That is not what he is saying as he is running across Canada trying to sell his carbon tax plan. He cannot sell his carbon tax plan in his

Finance committee   of the environment and how it will affect your industry if we go to the regulations that are presently in front of the steel industries? Has your organization taken a position on carbon taxes yet?