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House Hansard - 101

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
September 23, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 101 - Sep/23/22
Ms. Christine Normandin (Saint-Jean, BQ)
  • Sep/23/22 10:28:25 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-31 
Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Red Deer—Lacombe for his speech. He and the speaker before him talked about the importance of cutting spending to fight inflation. If we want to cut spending, then I would suggest that we cut the subsidies being given to oil companies that are making record profits in the current crisis. The Conservatives would never dream of cutting oil subsidies, but they do not want to provide rental assistance. I would simply like to know why oil companies, which are already rich and making profits, deserve help more than someone who cannot afford to pay their rent.
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Context: House Hansard - 101 - Sep/23/22
Ms. Christine Normandin (Saint-Jean, BQ)
  • Sep/23/22 11:27:24 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, Quebeckers are worried about the future. Hundreds of thousands of people across Quebec are marching on the streets to remind the government about the principles of the former minister of the environment and climate change, who at the time wanted to divest from fossil fuels. This government continues to support the oil industry, however. Over the past year, it approved the new Bay du Nord development project and it continues to subsidize oil companies every chance it gets. The government set aside $2.5 billion for this industry in the last budget. When will the government finally learn that we need to hit the breaks on fossil fuels, not step on the gas?
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Context: House Hansard - 101 - Sep/23/22
Mr. Rick Perkins
  • Sep/23/22 12:43:10 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-30 
Mr. Speaker, my thanks to the member for her thoughts on the hurricane that is approaching my province. I think that is a great question. We have expressed, quite consistently, since the election last year in 2021, that one of the big things that we have to do in this chamber, in this House, to reduce the inflationary pressures on Canadians, is to deal with the taxes on fuel. The taxes on fuel come in the form of the HST and the carbon tax. In fact, the HST is a tax on top of the carbon tax, or one way or the other. I cannot keep straight which level of taxes the Liberals put on to tax other levels of Liberal taxes. In this case, those massive taxes on fuel mean that everything we eat or buy has to be transported by truck. That forces the cost of transportation up, which forces the cost of everything up. The structural issue we need to deal with is to reduce taxes on fuel, eliminate the carbon tax on fuel and eliminate the carbon tax on home heating oil. We have to heat with oil from Saudi Arabia in my province, which will cost the average household $600 to $700 more a year. If those taxes are reduced that will deal with the permanent structural problem we have with inflation.
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