Business of Supply  Madam Chair, for Canadian taxpayers, the most important thing is having some money left in their pockets. The Liberal government just invented a second Liberal carbon tax. Can the Minister of Finance tell us, on average, how much that will cost a family in Quebec?

Business of Supply  Madam Chair, on average, how much will the second Liberal carbon tax cost Quebec families?

Business of Supply  Madam Chair, the Parliamentary Budget Officer indicated that the second Liberal carbon tax will cost Canadian families an average of $436 more. Is that true or false?

Business of Supply  Madam Chair, we are not talking about the tax per tonne. We are talking about the money that this is going to cost taxpayers—

Strengthening Environmental Protection for a Healthier Canada Act  Mr. Speaker, the Bloc Québécois member began his speech by talking about Quebec's primary jurisdiction over the environment and about how Quebec should have full power over environmental matters within its territory. My question is this. The Bloc Québécois avoided saying much of anything about independence during the past two election campaigns, but this weekend, it talked about little else.

Strengthening Environmental Protection for a Healthier Canada Act  Mr. Speaker, as some often suggest, people on opposite sides of the world eventually come together. Perhaps that is why the Greens and the Conservatives will be voting the same way, but obviously for different reasons. The only thing I would like to add about Bill C-69 is something Alexandre Shields wrote in an article on the subject.

Strengthening Environmental Protection for a Healthier Canada Act  Mr. Speaker, we just have to look at the facts. After eight years of the Liberal government, people pay more taxes and we still have more pollution. These are the facts. This is why the Liberal carbon tax does not work.

Strengthening Environmental Protection for a Healthier Canada Act  Mr. Speaker, there is one thing I am fully prepared to recognize, and that is the hon. member's love for Quebec and Quebeckers. I know that he knows—as I said a few moments ago in a parliamentary committee—that Quebeckers do not exist in a vacuum, that they live on planet Earth and that, last year, according to a study by the École des hautes études commerciales de Montréal, Quebeckers consumed 18 billion litres of oil.

Strengthening Environmental Protection for a Healthier Canada Act  Mr. Speaker, let me pay all my respects to the quality of the member's French. We have all worked to learn a second language. When I talk about a second language, I am not talking about French. I am talking about the second language after our mother tongue language. For as long as we need natural resources, including fossil resources, and for as long as we need oil, I will always stand for what is right for Canada, just as I support hydroelectricity and everything that comes from our country's natural resources.

Strengthening Environmental Protection for a Healthier Canada Act  Mr. Speaker, my answer is really simple: Yes. Unfortunately, yes. First of all, the hon. member said that amendment changed nothing. So why did he vote for it if it changed nothing? I do not understand why. The issue is what we have seen in Alberta following the tragedy there. Well, everything was said before.

Strengthening Environmental Protection for a Healthier Canada Act  Mr. Speaker, I must admit to the member that this is the first time I am hearing about this. I will take that under advisement, because I do not want to treat it like an insignificant detail. On the contrary, little things like that are what is hurting our environment and we need to take the work seriously.

Strengthening Environmental Protection for a Healthier Canada Act  Mr. Speaker, as I said a few moments ago, I am very pleased to be participating in this debate. As members know, since October, I have had the privilege of being the official opposition's shadow minister for climate change and environment. I am honoured by the confidence placed in me by the hon. member for Carleton, the Leader of the Opposition and our future prime minister.

Strengthening Environmental Protection for a Healthier Canada Act  Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to be participating in today's debate. I am also very pleased to see my colleague, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, again. I have a lot of respect and esteem for him. I will give him a moment to put his earpiece on properly so that he can hear the interpreters.

Presence in Gallery  Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I believe that there is unanimous consent in the House for me to table the report entitled “A Distributional Analysis of the Clean Fuel Regulations”, which indicates on page 24 that Quebeckers will pay $436 more.

Carbon Pricing  Mr. Speaker, the minister in 58th place just said something that is not entirely accurate. He said his plan is working. His plan is working so well that the United Nations released a document last fall that ranked Canada 58th out of 63 countries in the fight against climate change.