Taxation  Mr. Speaker, since the question involves the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Transport and the Minister of Justice, perhaps I can answer. When the Reform Party has nothing to talk about it dreams about the carbon tax. There is no budget planned for between now and February

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, I give a carbon copy of the carbon tax answer I gave earlier.

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, I have asked the Minister of Natural Resources on many occasions if he is considering a carbon tax. The answer has repeatedly been no. Yet a 25 member transportation panel looking at ways to reduce greenhouse gases states that transportation bureaucrats, lobbyists

Supply   that at all. The Reform Party is out in front leading the charge: the roof will fall in and we will face terrible changes. Nothing could be further from the truth. It reminds me of the Reform Party on the issue of a carbon tax. What is the only party in the country that talks about

Speech From The Throne   things that could very much threaten agriculture and add more burden to our farmers. One was to implement the Kyoto protocol, the proposed carbon tax and the increased input costs that would result for farmers. The other was endangered species protection legislation, something

The Environment   not believe a broad based carbon tax would be an appropriate way to go. There are however many other other measures, including incentives whereby we can work together to achieve the Kyoto targets. These targets are very important for us to achieve.

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, we still have not heard from the minister on the government's position on the UN imposed emission targets. All we have heard is that the minister will either throw Canadians out of their cars with a gas tax or out of their jobs with a carbon tax. Will the minister

Supply   to have a carbon tax, a green tax or some kind of tax on the price of gas at the pumps in order to change the habits of people so they would use less. Would the member explain his party's position. Does his party support meeting the Kyoto protocol? If so, how does it plan to do

Resource Industries   to handle this would be for a government on high to come down with a carbon tax or with some kind of oppressive decision against energy in order to try and force conservation on people. People will buy into it. People will co-operate. The people of Calgary are buying into wind energy

Climate Change  . The Liberals have promised no carbon tax and no new energy program for controlling the wealth of energy rich provinces, but carbon emissions trading schemes being considered in order to reach Kyoto targets are only another name for a carbon tax or a new national energy program and they may

The Budget   they are not under the same constraints? The government will continue to say it will not impose a carbon tax but the emissions permits or carbon caps that it is considering are just a carbon tax by another name. Some sectors that produce more greenhouse gases such as the energy sector

Supply   program. They say they would not consider a carbon tax because it would be out of the question. They say they made that mistake once and would not make it again. As the government is making these commitments government bureaucrats are speculating publicly about the need to put carbon

Supply   a flip flop of massive proportions. The only party in the House that ever proposed a carbon tax was the Reform Party. Bill Gilmour, the former Reform critic, was quoted in the Ottawa Citizen on October 24, 1997 as saying environmental taxes could be part of the equation if they were

The Environment   and related matters as soon as possible? If such a meeting is convened, would the agenda include the discussion of any federal proposal for a carbon tax?

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, the first ministers asked that we have a joint ministerial group composed of provincial and federal ministers. They meet regularly. They are meeting at the end of May. Once again the hon. member knows this government has never looked at a carbon tax in the past