Liberal Party Leader  He has also stated “We will have to raise taxes.” What taxes does he want to raise? A carbon tax? A crushing tax on businesses? We have no details on this new Liberal policy. What is the truth? What taxes would be raised? Who would be affected? How would he go about raising these taxes?

Business of Supply  Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for his excellent question. Why is the Liberal leader intent on imposing a carbon tax and increasing the GST, taxes which would both affect disproportionately families, workers and seniors in Quebec? I would like him to tell me. When does he intend to increase our tax burden?

Taxation  Speaker, in November 2004 the Liberal leader called himself a “tax-and-spend, Pearsonian, Trudeau Liberal”, but that was then. In 2006 he fathered the Liberal carbon tax, but that idea is no longer popular, please ignore it. Last December he said, “I'm not going to take a GST hike off the table”, but that is not quite what he meant. This month he said, “We will have to raise taxes”.

The Economy  We are helping Canadians who are hardest hit by this global recession. In contrast, the Liberal Party has promised to impose a job-killing carbon tax, to raise the GST and to end the universal child care benefit. In a pattern of announcing policies that will hurt Canadian families, the Liberal leader recently said, “We will have to raise taxes”.

Taxation  They like high taxes and their leader just last week said, and I want to repeat the quote that he made, “We will have to raise taxes”. I respect their honesty: raise the GST, impose a job-killing carbon tax, and take away the universal child care benefit. They have tried to deny all of these statements by trying to cover it up after they accidentally blurted out the truth. There is a reason they are called tax and spend Liberals.

Taxation  Canadians are troubled that the party opposite thinks that taking money out of the pockets of Canadian families is something that will help the economy recover. Now we know that the Liberals will raise taxes, impose a carbon tax, raise the GST, and end the universal child care benefit. The Liberal Party needs to be clear with Canadians. The leader should stand up in the House today and tell Canadians how much he will raise taxes, and who would be forced to pay them.

Taxation  We know that they want to increase the GST. We know that they want to impose a job-killing carbon tax. We also know that they want to take away the universal child care benefit. The Liberals and their leader seem to like taking money out of Canadians' pockets. Would the Liberal leader stand up in the House today and finally come clean with Canadians?

Liberal Party of Canada  The Liberals said that they would reverse the 2% GST cut that this Conservative government made. Then they said that they would bring in a job-killing carbon tax. Now they are openly talking about broad, wide-sweeping increases to taxes across the board. Canadians have a right to know this. What taxes are the Liberals proposing to raise? How much are they going to raise them?

Subcommittee on Canadian Industrial Sectors committee  Places like China and India subsidize their energy costs, so they didn't suffer the same increase. That was sort of a good study of what putting on a carbon tax would do. In the short term, it wouldn't really do anything. It wouldn't reduce our consumption of carbon to move to more sustainable options, because they're not available. That's why technology really is the key, I think, to moving away from a carbon-dependent economy.

The Environment  Speaker, the fact is for far too many years certain political parties have played lip service to climate change and the fight against it. Now the Liberal leader plans on hiking taxes and imposing a job-killing carbon tax on all Canadians. Our environmental policy is tough and real. It strikes the right balance between protecting the environment while ensuring that Canadian families can have food on their tables.

The Environment  He went on to say, “Canadians are ready for tough measures, including the controversial carbon tax”. That is what the Liberal leader said.

Taxation  We know that the Liberals want to increase the GST. We know that they want to impose a job-killing carbon tax and last week, the Liberal leader said, “We will have to raise taxes”. If there was any doubt that the Liberals were out of touch with Canadians before this announcement, their new policy has surely confirmed it.

The Environment  This government is committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020 and, by 2020, to have 90% of electricity produced by clean sources. A carbon tax that his leader is proposing will not achieve that.

The Environment  Speaker, the fact is that for long, long years we had a Liberal government that did absolutely nothing on the environment. Now we have a Liberal leader who wants to impose a job killing carbon tax on Canadians. Our policy on the environment is tough, it is real and it strikes the right balance between creating jobs and protecting the environment. That is what Canadians want.

Government Operations committee  That politician went on to say on June 15, 2006, to the Globe and Mail: “We've also got to have popular, practical, believable policies that may involve some form of carbon tax.” That federal politician then went on, on December 18, 2008, in a City TV news interview, to say “I'm not going to take a GST hike off the table.” He then went on to say on April 14, 2009, just a few days ago, to the Kitchener-Waterloo Record, “We will have to raise taxes.”