Mr. Speaker, given that Quebec has kept its own carbon trading system intact, will products from Quebec be exempt from customs duties if the European Union decides to follow through on its threats?
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Business of Supply June 10th, 2025
Mr. Speaker, given that Quebec has kept its own carbon trading system intact, will products from Quebec be exempt from customs duties if the European Union decides to follow through on its threats?
Business of Supply June 10th, 2025
Mr. Speaker, I will clarify once again what I would like to know. Did he get a guarantee from the European Union that the changes made to Canada's carbon pricing system would not have an impact on exports?
Business of Supply June 10th, 2025
Mr. Speaker, I believe I am already following his account, but I do not think he is following mine. I would like to return the invitation.
Let us move on to another topic. We know that starting next January, the European Union will begin imposing tariffs on imports from countries that do not have carbon pricing. It has even stated that it will start with high-emission sectors, including steel and aluminum.
In Canada, the government has made changes to the carbon tax. Earlier today, we even heard the Prime Minister say that he was proud to have scrapped it. What guarantee do we have that this will not negatively impact our exports to the European Union?
Business of Supply June 10th, 2025
Mr. Speaker, I heard the minister's press conference too. He was disputing the 97.5% figure from Oxford Economics. On social media, he said that 70% of the retaliatory tariffs that Canada has imposed on the United States since the beginning are still in place. Can we get the most official figures available this evening?
Business of Supply June 10th, 2025
Mr. Speaker, we were expecting $20 billion. How is the government planning to get the remaining $18.3 billion?
Business of Supply June 10th, 2025
Mr. Speaker, let us get back to the retaliatory measures we have been talking about. We know that the Minister of Finance challenged the study conducted by Oxford Economics. If I am not mistaken, he mentioned that earlier. How many billions of dollars were we at? Can he just remind me of the figure that was given a little earlier—
Business of Supply June 10th, 2025
Mr. Speaker, that option is therefore not off the table. Can we safely assume that?
Business of Supply June 10th, 2025
Mr. Speaker, we are really looking forward to that.
I am going to ask a question about international trade. The person who is now the Minister of International Trade was once a fellow member of the Standing Committee on International Trade. Trade agreements include safeguard measures that are defined as emergency actions. These measures are taken when there are increased imports of particular products that cause or threaten to cause serious injury to the domestic industry. They can allow for quantitative import restrictions or duty increases to higher than bound rates.
The tariff war with the United States is threatening our steel and aluminum industries. Does the government plan to use these measures to limit steel and aluminum imports from Asia to protect our market?
Business of Supply June 10th, 2025
Mr. Speaker, I can ask my question again. When will we see the departmental plans?
Business of Supply June 10th, 2025
Mr. Speaker, the fact remains that the supply vote will take place next week, if I am not mistaken. We still do not have the departmental plans. It says on the website that we will get them sometime in June.
Can the minister tell us when we will get them?