Carbon Tax   and food banks cannot keep up with demand. The Liberals have been hurting the Canadian economy for the past eight years. The least they could do is scrap the carbon tax, which is already costing Canadians 41¢ more per litre of gas, but no. We just learned that, instead, they are going

Carbon Pricing  Mr. Speaker, the reckless Prime Minister, along with his NDP-Liberal carbon tax coalition, is secretly implementing a second carbon tax, carbon tax 2. We all know the sequel is far worse than the original. The first carbon tax cost Canadians an additional 41¢ per litre

Finance committee  Thank you very much. I'm going to switch to Ms. Grynol. Your members have been through a very difficult time, whether it be COVID or now the labour shortage. My questions for you are going to be specifically with respect to the carbon tax. We had the original carbon tax

Finance committee  , deigned it so and froze it at 2%. However, just this morning, the Parliamentary Budget Officer released a report on the second carbon tax—what they call the clean fuel standard—which says it's going to add another 17¢ per litre on gasoline. That makes its way through the entire

Business of Supply   around the world right now. It is a huge issue. The problem is their proposed solution. Another Conservative opposition day focused on the carbon tax. They want to eliminate the carbon tax. The Conservatives were broaching another important issue of our time, another fundamental

Criminal Code   to the island, where I spoke with a man named Frank. He is a small business owner struggling to make ends meet under crippling inflation, which is at a 40-year high. Given the high cost of food, driven up by the carbon tax, Frank cannot afford to buy meat at his local grocery store. Hunting

Finance committee   that they are facing a competitive disadvantage with regard to aspects of our supply chain because of some of the regulatory uncertainty, because of the increased costs associated with the carbon tax and because of the musings of a nitrogen reduction that would impact—although not specifically

Finance committee   tax, the increases associated with the carbon tax and how those impact the entire Canadian economy, quite frankly, at every stage of the supply chain. Could you comment briefly on what you're hearing from your members? I hope to get one more quick question in, so can you answer

Finance committee   loan extensions. We appreciate the work that small and medium-sized businesses do, and we understand the predicament they're in, particularly those businesses that have been struggling to make those loan repayments. We've heard already quite a bit about the carbon tax at this table

Finance committee   and inequitable. I'll go on and ask you another question with respect to the carbon tax. It's also a double-edged sword. Tiff Macklem has written to our committee and told us that, at today's rates, nearly 10% of inflation is a direct result of it. You have both the carbon tax hit

Finance committee  This becomes even more worrisome as we look ahead to the further rounds of carbon tax increases that we're facing. Our main piece of advice to governments when businesses—or any Canadian, for that matter—is struggling is not to make the problem worse. Sadly, we've seen it right

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll begin my questions with Mr. Kelly. Thank you for all of the excellent work that you and your organization do. I'm going to spend some time talking a little bit about the carbon tax. We've heard from the PBO that Canadian individuals and families

Finance committee   in rebates than they're paying in the carbon tax levy—if that's true for anyone—is that other Canadians are paying but not getting anything back. When the carbon tax was first created, the plan was that small businesses would be lumped into it. Large emitters, of course, have their own

Finance committee   at the beginning of this year, rising CPP premiums at the beginning of this year, minimum wage increases from provincial governments, and of course the most recent increase in the carbon tax and the smaller but still an increase in the excise tax on alcohol products. That's the situation

Agriculture committee  There's the new fuel standard tax that's coming out. I'm not talking about the carbon tax; I'm talking about the fuel standard tax that will be coming out—just so we're clear.