Employment  The NDP should stop undermining this important sector by calling it a disease and proposing a $21 billion carbon tax. I encourage the NDP to join us and the Government of Ontario in supporting jobs right across the country.

Foreign Investment  We will not listen to the NDP because the NDP is against investment and free trade. The NDP is against all that. The NDP is in favour of a carbon tax that would put a $21 billion burden on the shoulders of Canadian taxpayers. To come back to foreign investment, I would like to say that every decision that this government makes is in the best interests of Canadians.

Foreign Investment  Speaker, the member should talk about what the chamber of commerce is thinking about NDP policies: anti-trade, anti-investment and a carbon tax of $21 billion on the shoulders of Canadians that would raise the price of everything, including gasoline and groceries. Did the NDP ask that question of the chamber of commerce?

Jobs and Growth Act, 2012  Speaker, I find it interesting that the New Democrats like to talk about how we deal with items when all they want to do is destroy jobs and the economy. Whether it be the NDP carbon tax of $21 billion, which individuals will not be able to afford to pay for that research or afford to run their companies, we are very focused. When it comes to the environment, whether it be the $1.1 billion for the eco-energy tax home retrofit or the billion dollar priorities on green energy generation, this government is focused not only on the environment but on creating jobs and ensuring Canadians have a great quality of life.

Jobs and Growth Act, 2012  Ours is a plan that would promote clean energy and enhance the neutrality of the tax system, while the NDP's massive carbon tax would not only take $21 billion out of the pockets of hard-working Canadians, it would also cripple Canadian businesses and kill Canadian jobs. We are also extending the popular hiring credit for small business, which benefited nearly 534,000 employers last year.

Jobs and Growth Act, 2012  According to yesterday's National Post: “...a new report from the NDP-linked Broadbent Institute...contained a prescriptive chapter on “fair taxes” that, if implemented, really would send the cost of everything rocketing skyward”. So with a socialist form of carbon tax and the NDP economic policies that would cripple our business and competitive advantage, the official opposition members just do not understand the damage they would do ultimately to pay for the programs that we treasure.

Jobs and Growth Act, 2012  I will contrast our low tax plan focus on jobs and growth with that of the NDP. On page four of the NDP platform, there is a $21 billion carbon tax that would be used for a myriad of government social programs that range from housing to food. We need to be clear that this is a tax that would raise the cost of everything from gas to heating bills and it should be contrasted—

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. Did you want to mention carbon tax?

Finance committee  Scholz, when you appear before the finance committee of the House of Commons today, we want you to tell them that we are in favour of a $21 billion carbon tax that the NDP is proposing?” Did any one of those ask you to do that here today?

Finance committee  Did any one of those ask you to advocate for a $21 billion carbon tax today, as contained within the NDP platform?

Jobs and Growth Act, 2012  Is there a carbon tax in there?

Foreign Investment  However, on clarity, the members on the other side of the House are anti-trade, anti-investment and they offer a carbon tax that would put a $21 billion burden on the shoulders of Canadian taxpayers. We will not go down that path.

Baseball World Series  The federal NDP's policies are similar: high taxes and fewer jobs. The NDP leader's proposed carbon tax would raise the price on everything, leaving Canadians with less money to spend on the things they love, like baseball.

Finance committee  In anticipation of your attendance here today, did any one of those members come to you and say, “Please inform the committee that we are in favour of a carbon tax”, which appears on page 4 of the NDP policy platform from the last election, which would add $21 billion—

Finance committee  Hayos, to go before the finance committee and tell members of the governing party that they want a carbon tax, which appears on page 4 of the NDP platform, and which would take $21 billion out of the pockets of Canadians? Did any one of them ask you to do that?