Bill C-342 (Historical)

An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act (carbon levy)

This bill is from the 42nd Parliament, 1st session, which ended in September 2019.

Sponsor

Mark Warawa Conservative

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Defeated, as of Oct. 25, 2017
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Excise Tax Act to provide that any tax paid to a province in respect of carbon is excluded from the total purchase price for the purpose of calculating the goods and services tax.

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-342s:

C-342 (2023) An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (maximum security offenders)

C-342 (2013) An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act (funeral arrangements)

C-342 (2011) An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act (funeral arrangements)

C-342 (2010) Nowruz Day Act

C-342 (2009) Nowruz Day Act

C-342 (2007) An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (travel expenses)

Votes

Oct. 25, 2017 Failed 2nd reading of Bill C-342, An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act (carbon levy)

Excise Tax ActRoutine Proceedings

March 20th, 2017 / 3:15 p.m.

Conservative

Mark Warawa Conservative Langley—Aldergrove, BC

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-342, an act to amend the Excise Tax Act (carbon levy).

Mr. Speaker, I am so honoured to present in this Parliament my private member's bill. We will begin debate next month on it. I would like to thank the hard-working member for North Okanagan—Shuswap. It turned out that we were both very interested in the same important issue. The issue is that Canadians are willing to pay their fair share of taxes, but Canadians are being tricked by the government.

The Prime Minister said that we must all pay a new carbon tax on everything. He said that the provinces and territories may make this revenue-neutral, but he said that his new tax on carbon would not create any new taxes for his federal government. However, that is not the case. It has been revealed that the federal Liberal government will be collecting billions of dollars of new taxes by charging GST and HST on top of the price on carbon, which is a tax on the tax. That is not fair. It is not what the Prime Minister promised.

I have introduced this bill to prevent the federal government from collecting GST or HST on the carbon tax. It is a good bill. It is not fair to charge a tax on a tax. I call on all members in this House to support this excellent bill.

(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)