Agriculture committee  Earlier, in response to a question from my colleague about the impact of the carbon tax, you said that you hadn't done the calculations. I would nevertheless like you to provide figures to the committee on the potential impact it might have on the prices of all food products.

Agriculture committee  It may take a while, but it certainly has an inflationary impact. As for the dollar impact of the carbon tax on Metro, we'll try to give you a satisfactory answer, but I don't have that information at hand.

Agriculture committee  Okay. Has Metro done an analysis or anything specific regarding the cost of the carbon tax on your brand, the Metro brand, in increasing energy bills, transportation, heating and cooling costs, all of those types of things? Have you done an assessment on what the cost of that is to Metro?

Agriculture committee  We pay our energy bills, we pay fuel. I don't have a specific carbon tax component. We pay taxes—

Agriculture committee  La Flèche, as CEO of Metro, to take a look at those bills. They will have an element specifically telling you what your carbon tax is on every single delivery and on your heating bills in your stores. I think it would be important for Metro to understand the costs you are being burdened with. I'm assuming those additional costs you're having to pass on to consumers; this isn't something Metro would be "eating", I would think.

Agriculture committee  Energy bills in Ontario have declined a little bit over the last year, so that's why I'm not seeing the carbon tax specifically, but I'll make a note of it and we'll get back to you.

Business of Supply  The hypocrisy is no more evident than with the member for Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge, who was part of the B.C. Liberal government that brought in the carbon tax in British Columbia. In 2017, he said in the B.C. legislature: ...our government made the decision to implement a tax on carbon.... Our carbon tax appears to be working. Independent studies have found that between 2008 and 2012, fuel use in B.C. dropped by 16 percent per capita.

Business of Supply  I want to focus back on Canadians. What is driving their costs up is the high cost of production. The carbon tax is exactly part of that. The reality is that we have greenhouses that produce huge amounts of food and have to pay $500,000 in a carbon tax. The Liberals always talk about getting money back, but this is what the net cost is for the carbon tax.

Climate Change  The climate change performance index ranked Canada 62nd out of 67 countries on climate change performance, despite the fact that Canada has one of the highest carbon taxes in the world. Will the Prime Minister finally admit that he does not have an environment plan and that he has a tax plan?

Carbon Pricing  The Chiefs of Ontario, representing 133 first nations, nearly a third of which are located in the Kenora district, are taking the government to court. They argue that the carbon tax leaves them worse off and breaches the principles of reconciliation. Therefore, why does the Prime Minister not finally show some common sense and axe his tax on farmers, families and first nations for good?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think it would be entirely appropriate for our committee to hear from some of these community leaders and communities as to the effects of the carbon tax on their communities and what percentage of their budget the carbon tax consumes. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.

Carbon Pricing  With rising prices, Canadian families will have to choose between heating and eating at Christmas. When will the Prime Minister scrap his plan to drastically increase the carbon tax for farmers and families?

Carbon Pricing  When will the Liberals finally understand that their plan is broken and that their insistence on quadrupling the carbon tax will only make things worse for all Canadians and Quebeckers?

Carbon Pricing  Speaker, the Prime Minister is causing division and anger in unprecedented ways, with a backlash we may never have seen in this country before: 133 first nations suing the Prime Minister over the carbon tax, several provinces taking the Prime Minister to court to try to stop the tax, one province refusing to collect the tax altogether, and now the Premier of the Northwest Territories asking for a full exemption, saying, “the prices are just getting higher and higher here.”

Carbon Pricing  Will the minister come to the Northwest Territories, sit across from families in Northwest Territories and tell them why the government will not exempt them from the carbon tax?