Renewable Energy  The commitment of the previous government was 6% below 1990 levels, but the targets went 35% above that target. Emissions continued to grow. Does he still support the job-killing carbon tax that he proposed in the last election?

Renewable Energy  We are still waiting for their plan. Canada has no price on greenhouse gas emissions through a cap and trade or a carbon tax. That is why emissions are going up. They are doing nothing.

Energy Efficiency Act  From my personal perspective as the member of Parliament for Edmonton—Strathcona and for my party, we do not care what measure is taken as long as it sets the appropriate value on carbon so we actually start driving change. This debate over cap and trade versus carbon tax has to end, and it has to end here today. Everybody worldwide has admitted that we must have the right value on carbon and we must put that in place now to drive the change as expeditiously as possible.

Agriculture and Agri-Food  We are hoping for some very positive news there. What would really barbecue farmers quickly is increasing their taxes, and a punitive carbon tax would have an exponentially harmful effect on agriculture. We will never do that.

Liberal Party of Canada  They want to increase the GST, end the universal child care benefit and impose a job-killing carbon tax on Canadian families and businesses. Most disturbing of all is when the Liberal leader himself announced that he “will have to raise taxes”. The Liberals' road map to economic failure is not the way to help Canadian families and not the way to help the economy.

Justice  Mr. Speaker, we did hear a lot about the Liberals getting back to supporting a carbon tax. However, I must tell the House how disappointed I was when the Leader of the Opposition addressed the convention and there was not one word about getting tough on crime or standing up for victims or law-abiding Canadians.

Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act  I am wondering if she could tell the House what her thoughts would be on the best means of dealing with greenhouse gas emissions and whether she thinks that a carbon tax or a cap and trade system would be the best way to deal with that.

Leader of the Liberal Party  Therefore, we asked him which taxes he would raise, by how much he would raise them and who would have to pay.? On Saturday, his party answered with a resolution favouring a carbon tax, which is a tax on everything. His words are clear. There is no need to deny or reverse them this time. The distinguished gentleman is in favour of higher taxes, so let the debate begin.

The Environment  Speaker, the rotating Liberal environmental plan of taxes, tiddlywink bills and incremental excrementalism has stopped again on taxes. It is hard to believe, but the Liberal Party wants to impose a carbon tax on Canadians. This will damage investments, kill jobs, and raise prices. Canadians have a government with a real environment plan, working with our allies internationally and also continentally.

Employment Insurance  I guess the reason to borrow this is to create a diversion from the reaffirmation at the Liberal convention of the carbon tax. It is not any better an idea the second time around.

Liberal Party of Canada  Speaker, tax, tax, tax, that is the mantra of the Liberals, who held a unilingual English love-in in Vancouver. The Liberal leader, who is the father of the carbon tax, still does not want to acknowledge that this tax hurts people. During the most recent general election campaign, Canadians rejected this tax on everything. When I say everything, I mean everything: fruit, vegetables, cereal, goods and public transit.

Finance committee  A tax of 10¢ a litre, which is currently existing under the federal excise tax, is equivalent to a carbon tax of $42 per tonne. If you apply $42 on everything else, what would happen in our calculations is that instead of raising $5.1 billion under the federal fuel excise tax, one could raise $17 billion under a full-blown carbon tax that would be based on consumption.

Finance committee  The system starts by placing a limit on greenhouse gas emissions, and companies are forced to deliver those reductions, whether through improved performance on-site, by purchasing credits, or by purchasing credits in the market. A carbon tax cannot offer certainty about the volume of reductions it will achieve, but unlike a cap and trade system, a carbon price or a carbon tax does provide price certainty. A carbon tax of $30 per tonne, for example, would create a strong economic incentive for companies to undertake emission reductions that cost less than $30 per tonne, because by doing so, they avoid paying the tax.

Finance committee  I don't think this is a matter of principle; I think it becomes a matter of practical politics. Carbon taxes are good. To get them in place, whatever it takes.... If that means reducing other taxes so that the carbon taxes are revenue neutral, that's pragmatic politics. If it means devoting the revenues to environmental causes, people tend to see that connection.

Taxation  During the 2006 Liberal leadership race, he said, “We've also got to have popular, practical, believable policies that may involve some form of carbon tax”. Last December he said, “I'm not going to take a GST hike off the table”. This month he said, “We will have to raise taxes”. Does the government agree with the Liberal leader when he says, “We will have to raise taxes”?