Leader of the Liberal Party  He calls himself a “tax-and-spend, Pearsonian, Trudeau Liberal." He invented the Liberal carbon tax. He said, “I'm not going to take a GST hike off the table”. He said, “We will have to raise taxes”. This weekend the Liberal Party voted again in favour of a carbon tax. If the media will not report these inconvenient facts, will the parliamentary secretary?

The Environment  Speaker, while this government is continuing to work towards a North American plan to reduce greenhouse gases with the United States, the Liberal Party, in Vancouver, celebrated the return of the green shift's carbon tax. It is back. Yes, it is true, the carbon tax is back. Can the Minister of the Environment remind Canadians why they completely rejected this plan only seven months ago?

The Economy  Over the weekend the Liberal Party reaffirmed its commitment to taxing Canadians. The Liberal leader supported the risky carbon tax scheme during his first leadership race and the Liberals have once again adopted a carbon tax policy at their convention. We also know that they want to increase the GST and they want to end the universal child care benefit.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading System for North America  Today, when I hear Liberal members tell us that they support the establishment of a cap-and-trade market, of a cap on emissions, or of a carbon exchange, I cannot help but think that this is not what they proposed in the last election campaign. They did not talk about a carbon exchange but, rather, about a carbon tax. I have not heard the Liberal Party, and we have not yet read their election platform. Nothing says that they would not want to impose a carbon tax, instead of promoting a carbon exchange, as proposed by, among others, the Bloc Québécois and the NDP.

The Environment  We are constructively engaged in every forum and in every way. Then we have the Liberals who support a carbon tax, who support NDP tiddlywinks bills, and now, according to the member for Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca, support pumping raw sewage into the Strait of Juan de Fuca. These are the sum total of the Liberal policies: tiddlywinks, carbon taxes, and incremental--

Liberal Party of Canada  Speaker, we have been hearing about the kitchen cabinet the Liberals have formed and here is what we have had a taste of: Last fall they cooked up a carbon tax and gave Canadians a serious case of election indigestion. It turns out the coalition sandwich was not a hot item on the menu either. Come budget day, the Liberals got themselves into a real stew when they allowed a distinctly regional flavour to prevail over other important ingredients.

Business of Supply  Furthermore, Canadians may once again feel the sting of that old favourite, the regressive carbon tax. No wonder many Canadians are demanding more fulsome answers on what the Liberal plan actually involves. Which taxes will the Liberals raise? Will they implement the carbon tax? Will they hike the GST?

Business of Supply  As members know, it is his party that suggested that the GST should be increased again from the reductions that we as a Conservative government have implemented. It is also his party that came forward and suggested a carbon tax. It is also his leader who very recently suggested that taxes in Canada are supposed to go up, not down. How does the member justify that patent hypocrisy to, on the one hand, say that it is more efficient to harmonize the GST and PST because it will lower the overall tax rate and yet, at the same time, suggest that taxes in Canada should be increased, whether it is carbon taxes or the GST?

House debate  Only a few short years ago he characterized himself as being a “tax and spend Liberal”, his words not mine. Also, he has advocated, as has the rest of his party, that they bring forward a carbon tax. That was the previous Liberal leader's pet project in the last election. He was the father of the doomed federal carbon tax that the Liberals were projecting. As well, the Liberal leader and the rest of his party criticized us for lowering the GST from 7% to 5%.

Subcommittee on Canadian Industrial Sectors committee  I'd like to know just how we're going to design this and do no harm. To conclude, I don't think the issue is carbon tax versus emissions cap and trade; I think the issue is design. That's essentially what the round table report said just recently. You have to design this to get a price on carbon to incent new technology.

Subcommittee on Canadian Industrial Sectors committee  You don't know what the rules are, what the signals are, what the thresholds are, or whatever, so you have tremendous difficulties in regulatory areas. The climate change area is another one. Right now, B.C. has a carbon tax, Quebec has a carbon tax, others are involved in the western climate initiative, the federal government's doing this, and Ontario thinks it should be ahead of everybody else. We have to harmonize with the U.S., and while I totally agree with Mr.

Natural Resources committee  It's about 32 degrees outside, and the air quality is miserable, so maybe that will make you feel better about your situation. You talked about carbon taxes. I'm not an economist; I can tell you, though, from my experience, that the most destructive thing in moving towards some sort of future is tremendous fluctuation in the prices. We've experienced that in the last couple of years, but you can already see that the carbon tax that's being proposed is going to be small compared to some of these fluctuations we've had.

Price of Petroleum Products  The member for Vaughan has said that a carbon tax is certainly not an option for him, and former leadership contender and Liberal candidate Gerard Kennedy is of the opinion that a carbon tax is the clumsiest of the options they have so far.

The Economy  Someone may have dreams of killing the resource sector in B.C., or the auto industry in Ontario, but his real dream is to impose a job-killing carbon tax. Since first suggesting the idea decades ago, someone has championed the carbon tax idea in the Liberal leadership and during the last campaign. If imposed by now, someone would have crippled the Canadian economy.

Carbon Tax Policy  Had we gone the way of the carbon tax, would people be paying less or paying more?