Philip Lawrence at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On March 27th, 2024. See this statement in context.

March 27th, 2024 / 12:40 p.m.

Conservative

Philip Lawrence Conservative Northumberland—Peterborough South, ON

You're saying that the average Canadian family—especially if we move forward to 2030, since this government is intent on increasing the carbon tax and since the reality is that every Canadian is affected not only by the fiscal impacts but also by the economic impacts—will have more money going out of their jeans than coming into their jeans. Canadians can't just opt out of the economic impacts.

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