Carbon Pricing  We have two million Canadians lined up for food banks, which is a record-smashing number. He has doubled the cost of housing. He wants to quadruple the carbon tax. Nine in 10 young people say that they will never be able to afford a home. We understand that, with this miserable record, he does not want to talk about Canada or Canadians. He would rather spread falsehoods about far away foreign lands.

Public Services and Procurement  We already know that, while he is forcing two million Canadians to a food bank, doubling housing costs and quadrupling the carbon tax, he has a billion-dollar fund that its own bureaucrats say reminds them of the sponsorship scandal and where its executives were giving money to their own companies. Yesterday, a courageous whistle-blower testified the Prime Minister's innovation minister “lied” to the committee.

Carbon Pricing  I know the Prime Minister is desperate to avoid defending his own track record, or worse yet, his quadrupling of the carbon tax. There is a common-sense Conservative bill, Bill C-234, in the Senate up for the vote today. Will the Prime Minister stop blocking the bill and axe the tax so our farmers can feed families?

Carbon Pricing  He has a housing affordability program that doubles the cost of housing, a housing accelerator that has not built a single house and a carbon tax that has not reduced emissions. Instead of spending billions on programs that cause inflation and do nothing but sound pretty, why will he not axe the tax on our farmers so they can feed Canadians this winter?

Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada  The economy was stalled, Liberal spending was high, Canadians were struggling just to get by. No one could afford a house or pay rent, The carbon tax quadrupled is making a dent. Canadians struggling and having to choose, Between heating and eating, it was only bad news. For families lined up at the food banks to eat, The costly coalition was making Christmas look bleak.

Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, 2023  Madam Speaker, I hear the member's points about the process in negotiating free trade agreements and have taken that under advisement and to heart. One of the things he did speak about was that the carbon tax purportedly is the reason the Conservative Party has voted against this agreement and does not support this agreement. I am wondering if he could share with the House and with Canadians what his point of view is on the Conservatives' rationale for opposing this free trade agreement.

Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, 2023  They concocted a scenario of Canada forcing Ukraine in its time of need to agree to support carbon pricing. The fact is that Ukraine has had carbon pricing since 2011, long before Canada put the carbon tax in place. Ukraine strengthened that resolve in 2018 as part of its efforts to join the European Union. If anything, Ukraine has been leading Canada in the carbon pricing scenario. The mention of carbon pricing in this agreement in no way obliges either Canada or Ukraine to implement or continue carbon pricing.

Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, 2023  That is how to show support for Ukraine, not this fake straw-man argument they are building up about voting against a trade agreement that includes language that we would never support, because in the next trade agreement, they will mandate a carbon price if we let them get away with it this time. Canadians know the misery of the carbon tax. We are against it in Canada and we are against it in trade agreements. We will be against it forever.

Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, 2023  I would ask my colleague to elaborate on the kind of dedication this country has provided to our Ukrainian cohorts, friends and families in Ukraine today, to justify some of the great comments my colleagues have made and to further denigrate what the Liberal government has done with respect to putting a carbon tax into a trade agreement with a country that is at war.

Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, 2023  Madam Speaker, the member spoke of the principled approach of the Conservative Party to the agreement, so let us talk about principles. This is not about the carbon tax, but today the Ukrainians are running out of ammunition. Today, President Zelenskyy is in Washington, D.C., desperate to get military support from the United States that is being blocked by the American far right.

Environment committee  I understand, but we're talking about a carbon tax. Mr. Deltell, get back to Mr. van Koeverden's motion as quickly as possible.

Business of Supply  Farmers are being left out in the cold by the NDP-Liberal coalition, which is desperate to prevent them from getting a carbon tax carve-out for grain drying, barn heating and other farm operations. The Liberal carbon tax will continue to go up every year, increasing the pain felt by farmers, first nations and families.

Business of Supply  What we have, from eight long years of the current Liberal government, is an attack on that, with the carbon tax on anything that moves. If it continues to move, the government taxes it harder. We know that the Liberals are going to quadruple the tax. What is that going to mean? Academia's theory of the carbon tax is that if the Liberals keep increasing the price, people will stop using that item.

Environment committee  I think these kinds of programs we're putting in place—the price on pollution, which includes the carbon tax; the climate action incentive rebate, which addresses affordability; the investments in technology we're making so we can meet these goals—are very important. This is how Canada will face the challenge.

Environment committee  In the context of the Conservatives' only plan to address affordability, I did want to raise, once again, that the economic analysis of Canada's backstop carbon pricing system indicates that if the carbon tax were removed immediately, it would cost all lower-income and middle-income families $300 in 2024. This affordability plan that the Conservatives are peddling, and have been for the last couple of years, would cost Canadians hundreds of dollars a year.