Points of Order  Speaker, a member opposite, in statements by members prior to question period, made a statement that a number of us had voted with the government as if we were against the carbon tax. The fact of the matter is that the Prime Minister's Office put out misinformation in a media release on the motion that was passed by committee. The motion passed by committee is for a study on the carbon issue.

The Environment  What I am excited about is the honesty of one of the Liberal members opposite. He wrote: Ultimately, this added cost [the carbon tax proposed by the Liberals] will find its way into oil and plastic, transportation and food. In fact, most corners of our lives. I cannot name the Liberal member, but I found it on a website called www.garth.ca.

Poverty  They cautioned that Canada should look carefully at the winners and losers before pursuing such policies. Can the Minister of Human Resources tell this House about the impact of a Liberal carbon tax on vulnerable members of Canadian society?

Court Challenges Program  That being said, our government has done so much for Canadians, whether they belong to minority groups or not. The Liberal Party is proposing a carbon tax that would hit all Canadians, including minorities.

Agriculture  Unlike the NDP, Canadian producers will never be fooled into accepting or supporting a Liberal carbon tax.

The Economy  Let us look at what the OECD said about this economy, about the economic fundamentals that we have right: the job growth, the lower interest rates and the future that we have because we have a plan called “Advantage Canada” that we are implementing. The plan the Liberals have is for a huge new carbon tax, a new tax on fuel oil for Canadians, on gasoline, on a whole--

Natural Resources committee  This is a motion that certainly doesn't call for a carbon tax.

Natural Resources committee  I have a quick question before we go to a vote. Is the government planning on introducing new carbon taxes? I just wonder why we need this motion if the government is not.

Natural Resources committee  The provinces, as well as the opposition federally, have proposed a carbon tax, and there will be a compounded effect. The single toughest input expense that the lumber industry puts forth is the cost of fuel, and in the sawmills the electricity. I don't know what certain members of the opposition have against the forestry industry, but in my riding of Renfrew--Nipissing--Pembroke we have a model for forestry and we sequester--

Transport committee  I have no problem with that, Mr. Chair. It deals with the impact of a carbon tax upon commercial transportation in Canada, so it's quite important, especially with the motion by the Liberal leader. Will 48 hours' notice be enough time to deal with it on Thursday?

Agriculture committee  Would the mover of the amendment consider changing the word “tax” to “pricing”, “carbon tax” to “carbon pricing”, because I think at the end of the day you'll find, on our policy, what that's going to be is carbon pricing.

Agriculture committee  We're here to protect and try to come up with things that will benefit agriculture. At the end of the day, all this asks is that...and I don't care whether it's a carbon tax issue or carbon pricing, as Mr. Easter wants to call it. I don't care whether it's from this government or from a party that would like to be government. For example, I was going to bring up the one that Mr.

Agriculture committee  This also concerns the amendment. We're talking about a carbon tax. So it's exactly the same thing. I think that Mr. Storseth is also an extremely gifted debater. He is also very good at cutting off other people, but that is what I was talking about.

Human Resources committee  I think one has to perhaps look again at certain questions, which David Gordon has spoken about—the value of benefits and so forth, but also perhaps the value of income taxes to people at the bottom—to see whether there are ways. If one's going to be radical in that fashion with carbon taxes, I think you have to do these other things as well to make sure that those at the bottom do not suffer in any sense disproportionately.

Agriculture committee  Coming to Alex's point, really, if the Liberal Party proposes a green shift—let's call it that—that might include a carbon tax in it, it might also include other incentives. It might be counterbalanced with programs for carbon sinks, etc. If the Liberal Party comes out with a discussion paper in that regard...we're not the government.