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Environment The government's fondness for spending taxpayers' money has incited fear that it may impose a carbon tax. The oil and gas sector will have to try to survive anything decided in Kyoto. Could the environment minister tell us why the Canadian petroleum producers have not been invited to Kyoto?
October 6th, 1997House debate
Gerald KeddyProgressive Conservative
Carbon Tax Is the government planning to impose a carbon tax? Yes or no.
May 26th, 1994House debate
Cliff BreitkreuzReform
Carbon Tax Speaker, I do not think the hon. member has been listening over the last little while. The only place I have heard a carbon tax mentioned is on the Reform Party. We have never mentioned a carbon tax. We are not in the business of doing that. It seems the Reform Party is.
May 26th, 1994House debate
Doug PetersLiberal
The Budget Would he keep that? We eliminated it and we are very proud that we did. He talks about a carbon tax. He was the first person to raise the carbon tax. It is part of an ongoing study set up by the previous government which we are continuing, but he is the person who raised the carbon tax.
March 9th, 1994House debate
Paul MartinLiberal
Speech From The Throne For more than three years federal politicians, including some members of the present government, have been musing about the imposition of a carbon tax, a tax on fossil fuels which would be cleverly disguised as an environmental levy. An independent study commissioned by the government last year indicated that a carbon tax high enough to effectively inhibit the use of fossil fuels would adversely affect almost every measure of economic activity, including the gross domestic product, the level of industrial investment, consumer price index and the unemployment rate.
January 27th, 1994House debate
Lee MorrisonReform
Department Of Natural Resources Act It should move rapidly from a budget on which the emphasis is on non-renewable to renewable sources of energy and should move more rapidly to the implementation of policies that reinforce and accelerate the movement toward more efficient use of energy. I am not talking of a carbon tax, although we all know that one day the concept of a carbon tax will have to be tackled if we are serious about the question of climate change. However, the political moment has not yet arrived.
September 27th, 1994House debate
Charles CacciaLiberal
Carbon Tax Will the government put an end to the speculation and just answer the question? Is the government considering a carbon tax. Yes or no.
May 26th, 1994House debate
Cliff BreitkreuzReform
Carbon Tax Speaker, I do not know which part of the word "no" he does not understand. We have never mentioned a carbon tax. Read the red book. Is it found in the red book? No, it is not in the red book. It is not a part of our policy, period.
May 26th, 1994House debate
Doug PetersLiberal
Supply Therefore I am very concerned about the informal discussion there has been about green tax and about carbon tax. If we use taxation to alter behaviour then we kill our ability to be internationally competitive. If we want to change behaviour I suggest we may choose to institute penalties. We may choose to institute levies.
May 3rd, 1994House debate
Jim AbbottReform
The Budget Before I discuss specific budget announcements affecting these industrial sectors I would like to address two key concerns identified by Albertans in discussions leading up to this budget. First, the federal government's acting unilaterally to impose a carbon tax was of great concern to some Albertans prior to the budget speech. The Minister of Finance did not impose a carbon tax. In addition, the Minister of Finance did not reduce tax rebates for privately owned utilities.
March 10th, 1994House debate
Anne McLellanLiberal
Supply That is going to hit everybody, not just the rich we so often hear about. What about a carbon tax? Give it any name you like, I do not think it is dead yet. If any kind of unity is to be promoted in this country it had better be put to rest once and for all. What are the solutions?
February 14th, 1995House debate
Bob MillsReform
Taxation I am not quite sure what further debate the Reform Party would like to see. We have listened to the members ad nauseam putting up strawmen like carbon taxes and everything else. One day the leader of the Reform Party talked about what it cost per minute to listen to this House. We have blown a billion dollars listening to the Reform Party.
December 13th, 1994House debate
Paul MartinLiberal
Committees Of The House The government said: "We can do that for all Canadians and it will not hurt them". One of my colleagues said it was a kind of carbon tax. We cannot really say it is that because it does not focus completely on Alberta. It affects all people right across Canada. Last week I was listening to an Ottawa radio program. They were discussing the cost of fuel in Ottawa versus Toronto.
December 13th, 1994House debate
Ray SpeakerReform
Department Of Natural Resources Act The infamous national energy program of a previous Liberal administration is an example of Liberal gouging that still haunts the energy industry. The industry will not stand for another form of carbon tax no matter how the government chooses to disguise it. Instead of presenting these reorganization bills such as Bill C-48, why does the government not assure us that there will be no raping of the energy industry via taxation or via regulation?
November 23rd, 1994House debate
Elwin HermansonReform
Global Climate Change To proceed with an energy plan based on flimsy and rather badly scientifically studied evidence I would say is irresponsible, and I wonder if the long term motive behind all of this might be to excuse the installation of the carbon tax. We have discussed that several times in the House. But suppose global warming is a real threat? What are the reasonable alternatives? The motion speaks of alternative energy sources, but in my experience alternative energy, as most people describe it, could more properly be described as "supplementary energy".
November 22nd, 1994House debate
Lee MorrisonReform