Taxation  The Liberal Party wanted to raise the GST and the Liberal leader campaigned on the job-killing carbon tax. Conservatives are taking action to help Canadian families with our economic action plan. Liberals are trying to take their hard-earned dollars away. How much would the Liberal leader's tax hike cost Canadians?

Parliamentary Budget Officer  He signed the coalition deal, now he pretends he was never in favour of it. He was the first to propose a job killing carbon tax, forced it on his former leader, now he says, because it is not popular, he will not talk about it any more. Then he said he supports the oil sands, but voted for a bill yesterday that was tiddlywinks, in his own words--

Liberal Party of Canada  Sadly, this is the only idea ever offered up by the Liberal Party in response to Canada's serious economic challenges. The bill is as bad as the Liberals' job killing carbon tax. The bill is also a slap in the face to climate change approach put forward by both our government and the U.S. administration. How low can the Liberals sink? Their willingness to again shack up with an NDP-Bloc coalition is a warning to all of us how shamefully desperate the Liberal Party is to get its hands on power.

Liberal Party of Canada  Speaker, imagine if a political party tells voters in B.C. that it does not want to help the auto industry, then in Ontario pretends it never has said such words. Imagine if a political party champions a job-killing carbon tax one day, then backs away from it the next. Imagine if a political party would say on the east coast that it supports the seal hunt, then back in Ottawa introduces a bill that would ban the seal hunt.

Air Canada  The one thing this government would never do to Air Canada and to the travelling public is bring in a monster-sized carbon tax, which would have decimated the industry.

Liberal Party of Canada  Speaker, in British Columbia, the Liberal Party plan is to not help the auto industry, but in Ontario the Liberals have a different plan. One day the Liberal Party plan is to champion the job-killing carbon tax, claiming it must be implemented immediately. The next day the Liberal plan is to distance itself from the tax. The Liberal Party pretends to defend the seal hunt, yet at the same time the Liberals' plan is to introduce a bill that would ban the seal hunt.

Natural Resources committee  Let's not implement a carbon system that's going to make us less competitive. For example, in British Columbia we were going to have a cap and trade system and a carbon tax. The government has indicated that if you are caught by the cap and trade system you will not be caught by the carbon tax. How that's going to work is yet to be known, but it is a difficult challenge to make sure there isn't duplication and overlap in both systems.

Natural Resources committee  In some of the modelling we've done, when we talk about $200 a tonne, you often see sometimes complete electrification or drastically reduced emissions. You may not be paying a carbon tax at all, simply because your building is not powered with something that directly burns fossil fuels. So that's one element. With the modelling we have done--that's simulations, as who knows how the future could go--in these integrated communities you could have virtually no fossil fuel emissions and therefore you are paying no carbon price.

Natural Resources committee  When you talk about raising carbon to $200 a tonne, are you talking about a cap and trade system or a carbon tax?

Natural Resources committee  Have you done any research into the impact that having a $200-per-tonne carbon tax would have on the average family?

Natural Resources committee  My understanding was--and I'd have to sit here for five minutes to calculate it exactly--that the U.K. compared to Canada, in terms of the average person's petrol prices, was something on the order of a $170 tonne carbon tax already. The difference they pay at the pump versus what we pay at the pump is already $170 a tonne. But again, that's subject to check.

Natural Resources committee  When they're paying the equivalent of about $4.50 a litre and we're paying $1 a litre, you're saying that's kind of the impact of a $170-per-tonne carbon tax?

Automotive Industry  When the hon. member stands up and says he is being consistent, I would like to ask the hon. member how consistent he is on the carbon tax, which he pushed on the previous leader of the Liberal Party and now tries to distance himself--

Automotive Industry  For example, let us say one pretends to care about the auto industry while in Ontario, but when in British Columbia one tells people that one does not support the auto industry. That is hypocrisy. Let us say that one is the father of the job killing carbon tax and campaigns on it, but then tries to distance oneself from it. That is hypocrisy. Or if one pretends to support the seal hunt and then allows one of the senators and top advisers to work to ban it.

The Budget  The consensus was that the world was moving toward a global carbon constraint economy, that individual governments would be putting a price on carbon. That is occurring already. France is speaking of a carbon tax and bringing in a carbon tariff. California is moving toward that. It is happening within our own country in fact. Quebec has moved in that direction with a carbon tax. The most recent budget in British Columbia put a very significant carbon tax in place and a green tax shift.