Taxation  We also 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 tax benefit. The Liberals and their leader seem to like taking money out of Canadians' pockets. Would the Liberal leader stand in the House and finally come clean with Canadians?

Agriculture committee  How would a carbon tax impact your ability to compete internationally?

Agriculture committee  I must say we haven't really looked very closely at various models for carbon taxes that are out there. I haven't really looked at what the most recent Liberal proposals would be. Taxes are redistribution systems as well, and the Government of Canada's income tax is redistribution, so we've spent our time closely analyzing the policies that have been put forward by the government because those are the ones that are imperative to it.

Agriculture committee  Regardless of what kind of regime is imposed, whether it's the emission intensity system that had been proposed by the Conservative government in the past or a shift to a cap and trade system, or even a pure carbon tax, I think there has to be a way in that system to allow flexibility for industries that are strategic, energy intensive, and also trade dependent, in order for them to remain internationally competitive, particularly during the period of transition when some countries are going to have more aggressive programs than others.

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.