The Economy  The Leader of the Liberal Party announced a few months ago that he “will have to raise taxes”. This is in addition to his promise to impose a job-killing carbon tax and increase the GST. Canadians do not want that. That is why they trust our Conservative government to manage the economy. Because of our government's management of the economy, we have managed to retain the smallest deficit and debt compared to GDP of any country in the G7.

Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada  In response to our strong leadership, the Liberal leader has promised to raise taxes. He wants to increase the GST, impose a job-killing carbon tax, and eliminate the universal child care benefit. He has been away from Canada for 34 years. He called himself an American. He called our Canadian flag a pale imitation of a beer label.

Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada  In fact, he even refers to himself as a “tax and spend Liberal”. He is also the leader of the party that first pushed for a carbon tax, so he should not be at all surprised that on the weekend he became leader of the Liberal Party was the same weekend his party reaffirmed its support for the job-killing tax. The Liberal leader said, “We will have to raise taxes”.

Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada  He has called our flag a pale imitation of a beer label and he has accused fellow Canadians of living in a fantasy land. Now he has come back to Canada to implement a job-killing carbon tax, to implement a GST hike, and to implement a tax hike. He said, “We will have to raise taxes”. When his visit to Canada is over, Canadians hope he takes his harmful tax hike policies back with him.

Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada  In response, the leader of the Liberal Party has promised to raise taxes. He wants to increase the GST, impose a harmful, job-killing carbon tax, and eliminate the universal child care benefits. He even said, “We will have to raise taxes”. He said that Canada had become a laughingstock of the world and now he wants to become the prime minister.

Environment committee  While I recognize a carbon tax does not resonate politically, the alternatives have higher costs, and frankly, Canadians may dislike income taxes even more than they dislike carbon taxes. Second, an effective policy package would provide subsidies to low-emitting technologies such as carbon capture storage and renewables—renewable electricity or renewable transportation fuel.

Sealing Industry  Speaker, the hypocrisy of the Liberals is mounting, and Canadians are not falling for it. Their leader supported a job-killing carbon tax until he realized it was not popular. Now he says he will have to raise taxes, despite being in a global recession. Can the Minister of Health tell the House about the latest hypocritical attack on Canadians during these tough economic times?

Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada  On April 14, he said he would raise taxes. He would hike the GST. He is also the father of the job-killing carbon tax. When out in B.C., he called the forestry sector a basement industry. He then criticized the auto sector out in B.C. to make up for that slip of the tongue. Once he got back to Ontario, he then defended the auto sector.

Agriculture committee  We handle our fuel charges through a surcharge; as the price of fuel goes up and down, people who use our services pay more or less for those goods to be shipped. My feeling is that if there were a carbon tax, it would simply be more expensive to ship goods.

Agriculture committee  Okay, good. I don't want to leave you out, Ron. The opposition leader keeps on talking about a carbon tax. How would that affect your industry?

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, the Liberal leader should give himself more credit. He fathered the carbon tax idea. Then he generously put it up for adoption to his predecessor. Now he wants a paternity test to prove that this tar baby is not his. He says that the coalition, on which he signed in support of, would break up the country.

The Economy  Speaker, on this side of the House, we have a leader, a real Canadian leader. On that side of the House, the Liberals have the man who fathered the carbon tax, put it up for adoption to his predecessor and now wants a paternity test to prove the tar baby was never his in the first place. He attacks the deficit that he voted for, but wants billions more for a 45-day work year.

Liberal Party of Canada  He wants to eliminate the universal child care benefit and he was also the first Liberal to propose the job-killing carbon tax. We are in a global recession and we are taking the necessary measures to protect Canadians. Our measures are affordable and short term. We are proud to say that Canada's deficit will still be the lowest among all G7 countries.

Taxation  The issue is taxes. They want them higher and they want more of them. Their leader is the father of the carbon tax. He has also made only one policy commitment: taxes will rise under the Liberals. In these tough economic times, that is not what Canadians need. We need the stable and focused leadership that only this government can provide.

Taxation  We all know, unfortunately for him, that it was the leader of his party, the Liberal leader who said that he will have to raise taxes, who has promised to raise the GST, whose convention voted again for a carbon tax and who is proposing EI reforms that would mean massive increases in payroll taxes. Canadians know that and that is not the direction in which they want to go, especially in a time of recession.