Taxation  Mr. Speaker, please excuse me for being a bit emotional. That was a very touching moment. Yesterday, the Prime Minister confirmed what everyone in the country already knew: there is a new tax. He made it quite clear yesterday that there is a new tax on carbon that will affect ev

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, please forgive me. I should have said that someone else would be answering. The person who answers must confirm that there will not be any increase in prices for Canadians, not on their electricity bill and not on their grocery bill. The government must promise us t

Taxation  You have refused a motion saying that there will not be a higher price for the population. You refused that. Mr. Speaker, the new carbon tax, which is the Prime Minister's own word for it, will take more money out of Canadians' pockets. Canadians already pay their fair share of

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, we support the Paris agreement. In fact, we agree that it is a tax, but we do not believe it should be imposed on Canadians. The very idea of imposing a tax is very Liberal. The Liberals want more money so they can make the government even bigger, and then prove how

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, Canadians are pessimistic about the Prime Minister's announcement. He tried to sugarcoat it by renaming his new tax, but everyone knows it is a carbon tax. This is pretty bad news for taxpayers, who are already paying enough. Will the Prime Minister promise Canadian

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, yesterday on CBC, we heard about how the price of gas and heating oil will go up 11¢ a litre and 14¢ a litre, respectively. The government cannot make any promises about prices not going up. A tax on carbon means more money taken out of the pockets of Canadians. The

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, I can understand that the provincial premiers wanted to meet with the former prime minister. He did a lot for them. However, in one year, the Liberals created more problems with the provinces than we did in 10 years. It is too bad that Canadians' tax burden keeps ge

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, yesterday, a number of provincial environment ministers left the conference disappointed in the Prime Minister's decision. They were stunned to find out that they were being forced to accept carbon pricing before the end of the talks. This is another example of the

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, Canadians do not expect the government to ask them for more money to pay for its promises. Carbon pricing means bigger government and more money taken out of Canadians' pockets. What the government is suggesting is a great example of how the Prime Minister is interf

Health  Mr. Speaker, when we came to power in 2006, following 10 years of inaction on the part of the previous Liberal government, we signed a 10-year softwood lumber agreement. That deal expired last year, with a one-year grace period. The reality is that we continued working on a new d

Health  Mr. Speaker, during our 10 years in power, nobody ever heard any of the provincial health ministers attack the federal government. Not long ago, we said that we would reduce the provincial transfer increase from 6% to 3%. That must have been a pretty good idea because the Libera

Softwood Lumber  Mr. Speaker, on Friday, I was pleased to participate in the convention of the Fédération Québécoise des Municipalités. The 1,100 people in attendance strongly welcomed the creation of a committee composed of former mayors from our caucus to compensate for the fact that economic d

Health  Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Minister of Health said she is looking forward to meeting with her counterparts, the provincial health ministers. I have some good news for her: I know that one of them, the Quebec minister of health, is very keen to speak to her in person. He is going

Health  Mr. Speaker, let me give another good example. When I was the minister of intergovernmental affairs, my mandate was to ensure that provincial jurisdictions were respected. I looked for the mandate letter for the minister of intergovernmental affairs. The Prime Minister is the m

Softwood Lumber  Mr. Speaker, obviously, the number one concern for Canadians is jobs. We can create jobs by approving projects and we can protect jobs by making decisions and negotiating things like a new softwood lumber deal with the Americans, for instance. The former Liberal government aband