Finance committee  Did any one of them ask you, in your appearance here today, to implore us to impose a $21 billion carbon tax, as the NDP is advocating?

Finance committee  Did any one of them say to you to say in your appearance before the finance committee today that they favour a carbon tax of $21 billion and we should be setting that? Yes or no?

Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada  The NDP leader is still travelling, but he seems to have stopped talking. Since the NDP leader does not want to talk to Canadians about the $21 billion carbon tax, we will do it for him.

New Democratic Party of Canada  Unfortunately, this magical time of year is clouded by a new threat. The NDP leader is proposing a $21 billion carbon tax that will make it more expensive for Canadians to feed their families, heat their homes and drive to hockey practice. Part 4 of the party's platform lays it out clear as day, and the NDP leader himself has stated that this would be used to generate billions in new revenues.

New Democratic Party of Canada  Speaker, the NDP is attacking Conservative members in an attempt to change the channel on their carbon tax plans. The NDP leader thinks that by dispatching his benches to spread patently false information about Conservative MPs, Canadians might not flip to page 4 of his platform where it outlines that the NDP plans to raise $21 billion by putting a price on carbon.

Automotive Industry  What our government will not do is risk auto jobs by implementing the NDP's $21 billion carbon tax that would make minivans and the gas they run on more expensive. Auto workers can trust our Conservative government to stand with them and grow the auto industry in Canada.

Finance committee  They want to increase all the corporate taxes back to at least 19%, if not more. They have a $21.5-billion carbon tax that, again, would be paid for, as Mr. Collyer said, by consumers. Do you think that those things are good for small business, when you look at the whole of it and not just pluck one thing out of a platform, or do you think that balancing the budgets, making sure we pay down debt, providing hiring credits for small businesses to proceed with creating jobs are better ways to go?

Finance committee  I want to ask you this hypothetically. On page 4 of the NDP's platform, there was an advocation of a carbon tax that would be an additional tax of $21 billion for fossil fuels, in essence, and to raise that $21 billion from oil sands producers in particular. Who would ultimately pay that increase of taxation?

Canadian Heritage  Perhaps if we had a museum of tax and spend and highlighted such classics as an increase in the GST, increase in taxes for families and the ever-unpopular $21 billion carbon tax, then maybe we would get some support.

Small Business  They need our continued support. Unfortunately, the only ideas we hear from the NDP involve just that, a $21 billion carbon tax that would be devastating to small businesses. Small businesses simply cannot afford the NDP high-tax agenda. Can the Minister of State (Finance) please tell Canadians how our economic action plan 2012 will help small businesses?

Canada Post  Operational decisions are affected by the cost of hydrocarbons, including gasoline. The NDP plan to impose a carbon tax will make these operations more expensive and postal services less accessible to Canadians.

Budget Implementation  What we need is the NDP to get off its bench and get on to the job creation train instead of its carbon tax train.

Fall Fair and Corn Roast  By the way, I can say categorically that my neighbours do not want to see the price of their groceries, gasoline and electricity go up. They are categorically against the NDP's carbon tax that would bring in $21 billion of new revenue.

Employment Insurance  The member talks about undermining the economy. The question I have for the hon. member is: What does she think $21.5 billion in carbon taxes would do to the Canadian economy? Of course, that $21.5 billion was clearly outlined in the NDP platform, in its costing document, as a means to pay for some of the extravagant promises the NDP was making.

Finance committee  Okay. The NDP, on page 4 of their platform, had a carbon tax that was going to tax corporations or tax consumers somewhere around $221 billion. Hypothetically, who would ultimately pay that?