Government Operations committee  In 2021 and 2022, the CTF raised $5 million on the strength of more than 45,000 donations. The average donation is around $110. I am here on behalf of hundreds of thousands of Canadians who want answers for a $54-million spend.

Government Operations committee  We do not take any funding from international sources, only Canadian....

Government Operations committee  We do not take a cent from outside Canada. We have 235,000 Canadian supporters, and we're here because hundreds of thousands of Canadians are demanding answers to the $54-million ArriveCAN scandal—

Government Operations committee  Look, we have techies who were saying that the cost of this was supposed to be $250,000—

Government Operations committee  Yes, absolutely, especially with this, when we're now talking about a total bill of $54 million for a simple app. How do we know it's a simple app? It's because two independent techies were able to build it or recreate it over two days. I think we taxpayers have every reason to

Government Operations committee  I'm Franco Terrazzano. I'm with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. I'm here on behalf of hundreds of thousands of Canadians who demand answers for the $54-million ArriveCAN scandal. Why does everything always cost taxpayers more? Who is going to be held accountable, and why is e

Agriculture committee  If you want, I can take a slice of humble pie. I can't really add any more to what has already been said.

Agriculture committee  We certainly support the piece of legislation that would remove the carbon tax on farm propane and natural gas. Specifically, about your question regarding Quebec, I'm not sure I have a great answer for you today. I'm happy to follow up and discuss that. I do know, however, that

Agriculture committee  My question, to properly answer yours, is this: What would you be recommending? When I hear that type of questioning, the first thing that comes to mind is a new tax. I have never heard of a new tax that will make groceries more affordable. In fact, tax increases make everything

Agriculture committee  To that I would answer that the number one thing you have to stop doing is handing big corporations big buckets of cash. Stop the corporate welfare. What we have seen, unfortunately, especially from the pandemic, is taxes raised on families who can't afford it, who may have lost

Agriculture committee  Well, with respect to the member, I think members of Parliament should control what they can control, and the number one thing that you can control is how much tax you take away from struggling families, many of whom are worried about both the price of ground beef and a jug of mi

Agriculture committee  I'm very supportive, yes. Thank you. I mentioned a Parliamentary Budget Officer report that noted that the carbon tax on propane and natural gas will cost farmers about $1 billion through 2030. I think that it is a very good step in the right direction to help provide some reli

Agriculture committee  I understand that everyone in this room really cares about the environment, including our panel members who are not in this room. We heard the Saskatchewan panel member who represents the ag industry there talk about how farmers really care about the environment and how they want

Agriculture committee  We hear from so many people, especially during the cold winter months, that it's very difficult to swallow that type of bill, because we're talking about the necessities in life. We're talking about people having to pay more to fuel up their car to go to work or to keep their hom

Agriculture committee  Oh, it's not the entire problem. We also saw the Bank of Canada print hundreds of billions of dollars right out of thin air, so it's not the only problem. I mean, look, the whole point of the carbon tax, the whole—