Finance committee  Yes. I wanted to get one more question in. Thank you. I don't mean to cut you off. I want to know your thoughts on the impact of higher taxes, such as the carbon tax, and of economic uncertainty on productivity, and what that says about living standards for Canadians. How does

Finance committee  I don't know how much. I've never seen a study quantifying the impact of the carbon tax on investment. The PBO has quantified its impact on household incomes, and GDP and found it to be negative overall. I haven't directly seen a study of investment. I think consensus

Finance committee   will be the absolute last in growth when it comes to productivity until 2060. You also made mention of these experts who have been pro-carbon tax, and in your recent statements, you've said how the carbon tax is one of those factors that have affected productivity issues, after eight years

Finance committee   productivity growth due to high rates of investments. You can have high rates of income increases and maintain low inflation. Obviously, the carbon tax is one variable that's going to complicate achieving low inflation. If you have energy prices rising, that means there's going to be more

Finance committee   the development of our natural resource sector, which is by far Canada’s leader in investment and productivity. Distracting from our focus on growth is the controversy surrounding the recent hike to the carbon tax, which provoked its advocates to mount a last-gasp defence. Three hundred

Human Resources committee  Thank you. Also on that note, I wanted to ask about the carbon tax farm fuel exemptions that are being talked about. I'm just wondering if you have any comments on that and how it could affect farmers.

Human Resources committee  , there are the announcements of restrictions on fertilizer usage and there are the yearly increases in carbon taxes. There's the announcement that was just made by the Bank of Canada that it's holding interest rates high. For any farmers who have loans or lines of credit, this is going to continue to cost

Carbon Pricing  Mr. Speaker, the member has suggested that I was a climate change denier because I opposed his failed carbon tax. Is the member calling the first nations who took the Liberal government to court over the carbon tax climate change deniers?

Government Accountability   if there are no spaces to access? On the carbon tax, let us put aside the fact that the independent and non-partisan Parliamentary Budget Officer says more Canadians are hurt than helped and just focus on the fact that the government had promised small businesses $2.5 billion in rebates, yet has

Carbon Pricing   to be true because per capita emissions in British Columbia have fallen steadily since its implementation of a carbon tax over a decade ago. That was also supported by members of the current Conservative caucus who were Liberals in the B.C. government at the time of implementation. It has

Carbon Pricing   says, affordability is less of an issue in Alberta, particularly when it comes to housing. Most of my question was about food costs. We know that, no matter what the minister says, Canadians are seeing the impacts of the carbon tax on their food budget. The price of groceries is up

Government Accountability   indicated they will not accept the government's proposed fee schedules. Canadians have also seen multiple carbon tax grabs. Another one came into effect on April 1, a real cruel April Fool's Day joke. It is just like all the other carbon taxes, raking in billions but doing little

Carbon Pricing   believe that poverty is something that we can tackle together. None of the policy recommendations from the Alberta report card on the Food Banks Canada website mention the price on pollution. It does not mention the carbon tax because pollution pricing does not contribute

Carbon Pricing  , when we tax the farmer who grows the food, tax the trucker who delivers the food and tax the person who sells the food, Canadians cannot afford to buy food. Very soon, a farmer with a 5,000-acre farm in Canada will be paying $150,000 a year in carbon tax. The carbon tax is stopping

National Defence committee  All right. The government has decided to hike the rent on our troops and increase the carbon tax by 23% in the same month. Have our military families expressed concern about how they're going to afford these increased costs?