Mr. Speaker, the government likes to claim that its carbon tax will be “revenue neutral”.
We already knew that they were going to collect GST on the carbon tax, but today Environment Canada officials testified at the finance committee that the government will not return the proceeds of GST collected on the carbon tax to the provinces from which it was originally collected.
Is that not yet more proof that this tax has nothing to do with the environment, and that it is just another tax grab on Canadians?