Business of Supply  Speaker, I regularly see in the House and at the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food that my colleague is very interested in the cost of the carbon tax and its secondary impact. Is he also interested in the cost of climate change and its secondary impact? We, of course, have to take into account the effects of any policy that we put in place.

Business of Supply  They have beneficial effects on the environment, unlike a tax plan such as the Liberals' carbon tax.

Carbon Tax  With food prices out of control, it is bewildering that Liberals choose to attack the farmers and the ranchers who grow and raise Canadian food. First, they imposed a costly carbon tax, causing a food price crisis. Then, they threatened fertilizer reduction mandates. Now, they are hiking taxes on farmers. This latest tax hike is an attack on Canadian farm families and on their ability to keep producing food, something that will inevitably drive costs up.

Business of Supply  Speaker, what I find fascinating about the Bloc Québécois member who just spoke is her support of the carbon tax over and over again, when she represents the most northern riding in the province of Quebec. If we look at the chart right now on aviation gasoline and aviation turbo fuel, we see that her own constituents require tens of millions of litres in northern Quebec for medical appointments, for work, for everything, and the government is adding, with zero in rebates for the companies, millions and millions of dollars to the cost of flying back and forth to many remote communities in the member's riding.

Business of Supply  Conservatives will get rid of the red tape and allow investment to move ahead, not tax Canadians with a carbon tax that does nothing to address climate change.

Business of Supply  My question for the Conservatives is this: Do you know what climate change means? Do you know that the carbon tax does not exist in Quebec?

Business of Supply  Speaker, a journalist from The Canadian Press published an article on March 26 about an open letter on the carbon tax signed by 165 Canadian economics professors. The letter states the following: As economists from across Canada, we are concerned about the significant threats from climate change.

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, we just heard today about how much the cost of the carbon tax would be to our economy. We are looking at a $30-billion hit to our economy, costing over $1,800 per Canadian family every year. However, the only reason we have this information out is because of the pressure from the Conservatives in this place.

Business of Supply  In provinces where pollution pricing applies, most of the revenue is returned to Canadians via the carbon rebate four times a year. For eight out of 10 households in Canada, the rebate is more than the carbon tax they pay. This rebate is designed to benefit lower- and middle-income families the most. The exact payment depends on the number of people in the household and which province they live in.

Environment committee  They're telling Canadians today that they're reducing emissions, but they're not even measuring the amount of emissions being reduced from the carbon tax.

Taxation  Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister, he has developed an extreme obsession with taxing farmers. First it was the carbon tax; now it is the capital gains tax increase that means that a 74-year-old farmer back home who has worked his whole life will struggle to pay off his debts and enjoy his retirement.

Carbon Pricing  Speaker, the Liberal government gagged the Parliamentary Budget Officer that actually told Canadians the truth; it then cherry-picked portions of the data that support its version of the truth. This makes it look even more guilty. If the Liberals truly believed that the carbon tax was helping, they would release the report. Instead, they kept a $30-billion secret from Canadians. The minister wanted to tell Canadians that, by paying more for gas, groceries and home heating, they would be better off, misleading them by about $30 billion.

Carbon Pricing  Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government tried so hard to hide the truth that the carbon tax was driving up the cost of everything in Canada. The Parliamentary Budget Officer even had to call them out for blocking the release of their own economic impact report. They were literally forced to release the report.

Bill C-396 An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act (carbon pollution pricing)

Short Title Short title 1 This Act may be cited as the Stopping the Tax on the Carbon Tax Act . R.S., c. E-15 Excise Tax Act 2 Section 154 of the Excise Tax Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (2): Levies excluded from consideration 154 (2.1) Despite subsection (2), for the purposes of this Part, the consideration for a supply of property or a service does not include (a) any tax, duty or fee imposed under the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act ; or (b) any provincial levy imposed in respect of carbon. 3 Subsection 221(2.1) of the Act is repealed. 4 The portion of subsection 228(4) of the Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following: Real property — self-assessment (4) If tax under Division II is payable by a person in respect of a supply of property that is real property and the supplier is not required to collect the tax and is not deemed to have collected the tax, 5 Subsection 261(2.1) of the Act is repealed. 6 Paragraph 298(1)(b) of the Act is replaced by the following: (b) in the case of an assessment of tax payable by the person under Division II in respect of a supply to which subsection 221(2) applies, more than four years after the later of the day on or before which the person was required to file the return in which that tax was required to be reported and the day the return was filed; 7 Schedule VI to the Act is amended by adding the following after Part X: PART XI Carbon Pricing 1 A supply of emission allowances.

Carbon Pricing  Mr. Speaker, the economic vandalism and carbon tax cover-up of the government has now been exposed because of relentless Conservative pressure. The government finally leaked out, to the CBC, the economic hit Canada will take, originally reported at $20 billion.