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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.
April 9th, 2008Committee meeting
Prof. Jack Mintz
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.
April 7th, 2008Committee meeting
Prof. David Duff
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”?
April 30th, 2009House debate
Daryl KrampConservative
Taxation From increasing the GST, to ensuring the end of the universal child care benefit, to imposing a job-killing carbon tax, it is clear that the Liberal Party is out of touch with Canadians. The Liberal Party recently reaffirmed its economic clumsiness when its leader announced, “We will have to raise taxes”.
April 30th, 2009House debate
Blake RichardsConservative
The Environment We are getting it done on the environment, but the big questions are, why did the NDP oppose $1 billion for green infrastructure, why did it oppose $300 million for eco-energy retrofits, why did it oppose $1 billion for infrastructure on carbon capture and storage, and does it support the job-killing carbon tax of the Liberal leader?
April 29th, 2009House debate
Mark WarawaConservative
Liberal Party of Canada Recently the Liberal leader said “We will have to raise taxes”. Raising taxes, imposing a job-killing carbon tax, increasing the GST and doing away with the universal child care benefit, that is the Liberal way. Can we imagine the action plan of the Liberals during tough economic times, discouraging economic growth and taxing Canadian families?
April 29th, 2009House debate
Ed KomarnickiConservative
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?
April 29th, 2009House debate
Steven BlaneyConservative
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?
April 28th, 2009House debate
Jacques GourdeConservative
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”.
April 28th, 2009House debate
Pierre PoilievreConservative
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”.
April 27th, 2009House debate
Mike WallaceConservative
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.
April 24th, 2009House debate
Shelly GloverConservative
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.
April 24th, 2009House debate
Bev ShipleyConservative
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?
April 23rd, 2009House debate
Lois BrownConservative
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?
April 23rd, 2009House debate
Brent RathgeberConservative
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.
April 23rd, 2009Committee meeting
Fiona Cook