Business of Supply  We have farmers. We heard earlier from my colleague that they are paying $480,000 a year in carbon tax. That is absolutely outrageous and unsustainable because food is not a luxury. I would like the member to talk to farmers directly, through the camera, to tell them that they also have to pay GST on that amount.

Business of Supply  I wonder why farmers are not voting for the Liberals if they are doing so many great things. I would like to explain something to the member for Winnipeg North. When carbon taxes are put on the cost of growing our food, it increases the cost of food for everyone, whether it is because of the propane or natural gas used for drying grain or to heat the barns that keep our poultry and livestock warm.

Business of Supply  I do not believe for a moment that Conservatives understand the depth to which they are prepared to go to get “Axe the carbon tax” on a bumper sticker, which I believe will become the bumper sticker for the Conservative Party. They are prepared to sacrifice principles and, ultimately, attack parliamentarians, not only directly but, I would suggest, also indirectly.

Business of Supply  He voted to hand out dangerous drugs that caused crime and chaos in tent cities all over Vancouver Island. He voted to quadruple the carbon tax in order to fund the extravagances of the Prime Minister. New Democrats, especially those from Vancouver Island, are working for the Prime Minister instead of working for the common people in their constituencies.

Business of Supply  The leader of the official opposition has also said that the ballot issue in the next election will be the carbon tax even though he is well aware that tax does not apply in Quebec. I have one very simple question for the leader of the official opposition. Does he even believe himself when he says things like that?

Carbon Tax  Speaker, after eight years of the Prime Minister, the NDP-Liberal government has finally admitted that it not worth the cost and that the carbon tax is hurting Canadians. A farmer in southern Saskatchewan shared his carbon tax costs with me. He goes through 150,000 litres of diesel on his farm every year. At over 15¢ per litre, he is paying $24,000 in carbon tax on diesel fuel alone.

International Trade committee  Let's import and let's export, but you know what we shouldn't export? The misery of the carbon tax, the misery of the carbon tax that has two million Canadians going to a food bank in one month alone. Never in the history of Canada has this happened. Seven million Canadians are now cutting back on food because they can't afford to eat.

Government Business No. 30—Proceedings on Bill C-56  What they did was make a concerted effort to obviously find this little bit in the agreement and say, “Aha, we found it. In the Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement, we found it. It says 'carbon tax' in the preamble. Let us use it.” The genius who discovered that probably did not take the time to look. Had they done that, they would have discovered that Ukraine has had a price on pollution, a carbon tax, since 2011.

Government Business No. 30—Proceedings on Bill C-56  Madam Speaker, Canadians are certainly suffering from high prices. At the root cause of almost everything is the carbon tax. The carbon tax adds costs, first of all, to the growers who grow and produce food. Then the tax is added to the companies that truck the food to the places that process the food.

Government Business No. 30—Proceedings on Bill C-56  Madam Speaker, I have just a couple of things. The clean fuel standard, which applies in Quebec, is actually a carbon tax. While there may not be a carbon tax as such, there is a clean fuel standard. That is a carbon tax. When I talk to my constituents, they want me, as their representative in the House, to ensure they have the ability to move forward and to make a living.

Government Business No. 30—Proceedings on Bill C-56  We have made suggestions to take the carbon tax off all forms of home heating across the country, because the government, due to its panic over Liberal members who might lose their seats, decided to only make the carbon tax unavailable to one type of home heating.

Finance committee  In 2015, in the conversation around the carbon tax, the then leader of the Liberal Party and now Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, time and time again, when asked about some of the intricacies about how the carbon tax would be applied, Mr.

Government Business No. 30—Proceedings on Bill C-56  Madam Speaker, the one thing I did not hear the member talk about was a carbon tax. I know he is a really big fan of the carbon tax, because when he was in the provincial legislature in B.C., he not only voted in favour of it, but he also spoke very highly of it. He said: It means that every dollar collected from B.C. carbon tax is given back to the taxpayers in the form of tax credits or tax cuts.

Government Business No. 30—Proceedings on Bill C-56  However, I digress. The carbon tax is nothing more than another tax, but I qualify that because it is not quite that. It is, after all, a tax that disproportionately impacts lower- and middle-income Canadians. It is a tax that increases the cost of everything, including essentials such as food, fuel and heating.

Canada Labour Code  We have an NDP that has voted against the interests of everyday Canadians multiple times when it supported the Liberals' carbon tax increases. The NDP continues to prop up this costly government. The NDP will have to answer at the next election for why it is that it has sold out and propped up this corrupt Prime Minister.