Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, 2023  Madam Speaker, I enjoy working with that hon. colleague on the environment committee as well. The last time I checked, Ukraine's carbon tax was about one dollar per tonne. Canada's carbon tax is $65 per tonne, and is scheduled to increase to a $130 per tonne by the end of the decade, so I think it is plain to see that expecting the Ukrainians to increase their carbon tax by 130-fold would have a very negative effect on their ability to win the war.

Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, 2023  Madam Speaker, I am always amazed to hear that we support Ukraine, that they support Ukraine, that everyone supports Ukraine, yet we always find ourselves debating the carbon tax. The Conservative Party's relationship with the carbon tax worries me. Is my colleague's relationship with the carbon tax one of obsession, hyper-fixation, anxiety or insanity?

Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, 2023  Madam Speaker, I think we have to start by asking what the carbon tax is doing in the text of this free trade agreement. The hon. member says that we are the ones who are obsessed with the carbon tax, but we are not the ones who put it in there. What is the carbon tax doing in the text of this free trade agreement, if it has no benefit whatsoever to helping Ukrainians win the war?

Carbon Pricing  Will the Liberals support our motion and cancel their April 1 carbon tax hike?

Carbon Pricing  Let us not forget that the PBO has said that Canadians will still be paying hundreds of dollars in carbon tax even after the rebate. Canadians who are already struggling to afford gas, groceries and home heating cannot afford the NDP-Liberal government's carbon tax increase. Will the Liberals show some compassion and cancel their April 1 carbon tax increase?

Carbon Pricing  Mr. Speaker, the Liberal-NDP government continues to scam Canadians with its carbon tax. It said it would reduce emissions; it did not. It said Canadians would get more in the phony rebates; they do not. It plans to increase the carbon tax scam in April, making the cost of everything go up as two million Canadians visit a food bank in a single month, a third of whom are children.

First Nations Clean Water Act  However, at the same time, if we want to listen to the AFN, we should also listen to it when it talks about the carbon tax and the 133 chiefs of Ontario who want relief from the carbon tax. The Northwest Territories premiers are now calling for a break from the carbon tax. Let us start listening to those indigenous voices and axe the tax.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Then—I think it was last April—the Prime Minister said he was sorry but they couldn't do that anymore. They couldn't grant rebates for the carbon tax to their citizens anymore. It put the people who live in the Northwest Territories and their leaders in this very difficult position. Again, I'll refer to Jackie Jacobson. I call him the carbon tax warrior.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That, given that the Premier of the Northwest Territories has requested a complete exemption from the Carbon Tax for his jurisdiction, the Committee invite the Premier of the Northwest Territories, R.J. Simpson, to appear on this request for Carbon Tax exemption and the challenges Northwest Territories faces with the cost of living, and that the committee report to the House that it calls on the government to immediately carve out Northwest Territories from the Carbon Tax.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I strongly support this motion. The way the government has approached carve-outs to the carbon tax is inequitable and, frankly, against the spirit of nation building. Also, it ignores the valid concerns of many first nations communities across the country that are reliant upon different types of heating fuel and may be facing challenges outside of and greater than looking at ways to, let's say, install a heat pump.

National Defence committee  It's not a geopolitical discussion. It's not about anything to do with whether you like the carbon tax or you don't. Perhaps you could focus your comments on the motion itself that's in front of us.

Carbon Pricing  Speaker, the Prime Minister is not worth the cost of food after eight years of the NDP-Liberal carbon tax. It has caused food prices to rise 20% in the last two years alone. So much for the affordable food they promised when they signed their coalition with the NDP leader. So much so that the Kanata food bank is now forced to cut in half the number of potatoes it is giving out.

Public Safety  Dan Arnold, his other pollster, also get cheques from Loblaws. Are they the ones who forced him to quadruple the carbon tax on our food?

Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, 2023  We have had it in British Columbia for over a decade and it has worked, despite what Conservatives say, and despite Conservatives telling my constituents that we should get rid of the federal carbon tax to help my constituents; we do not pay a federal carbon tax in British Columbia. However, it is an essential part of any country's fight and any jurisdiction's fight against climate change.

Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, 2023  Speaker, I fear I may disappoint my colleagues, because I will not be talking about the carbon tax. It is often said that the desire to appear clever stops us from actually becoming clever. That is what I will try to show today. I want to comment on Bill C‑57, which seeks to review the free trade agreement between Canada and Ukraine, but I will talk about it in a different way.