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Context: House Hansard - 130 - Nov/18/22

Mr. Denis Trudel (Longueuil—Saint-Hubert, BQ)

Nov/18/22 10:56:57 a.m.
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Re: Bill C-32

Madam Speaker, we have listened to our Conservative friends talk about inflation and January's tax increase, but we cannot take their “triple, triple, triple” chant any more. We would like them to find something new to say. However, they are right that costs will triple and that that will have consequences for people. That much is true. Let us talk about climate change. The current carbon tax rate is pretty much ineffective. We are the laughingstock of COP27. Canada is ranked 58th out of 60 countries. It is the only G7 country where emissions have increased since 2015, the year the Liberals came to power. We have to take action on climate change. At COP27, we heard that if we do nothing, the cost to African nations in particular will be atrocious. If we do not pay now, we will pay even more later. What is the solution, according to my Conservative friends?

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Context: House Hansard - 130 - Nov/18/22

Mr. Gary Vidal (Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River, CPC)

Nov/18/22 12:00:57 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, imagine the people watching the answers this morning while having to choose between heating and eating in a cold Saskatchewan winter. Imagine them ordering small amounts of heating fuel that last only a few days, because they simply cannot afford any more. Imagine their desperation. Suppliers are lowering their delivery thresholds and are compassionately extending credit to people, knowing they may never get paid. Will the current NDP-Liberal coalition commit to ending its plan to triple the carbon tax on home heating fuel, gas and groceries, or does it simply not care?

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Context: House Hansard - 130 - Nov/18/22

Mr. John Brassard

Nov/18/22 1:12:51 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-32

Madam Speaker, I encourage the member to read what is in the Parliamentary Budget Officer's report and how that impacts Canadians across the country, not just in Winnipeg North. I can speak to my issue in Barrie—Innisfil. The carbon tax is disproportionately affecting individuals and businesses. People need to drive to go to work, need to heat their homes and need to eat. Businesses that are providing goods and services are being charged a carbon tax and they are not getting any rebate back. It is a tax. It is not a price on carbon. It is disproportionately affecting a majority of people across the country. Leger did a poll this week, and 71% of Canadians want the carbon tax eliminated, because they know it is having an impact on them.

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Context: House Hansard - 130 - Nov/18/22

Ms. Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands, GP)

Nov/18/22 1:15:24 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-32

Madam Speaker, my hon. colleague is quite right when he references the fact that Canada raced to the bottom of industrialized countries in terms of our climate performance. In fact, throughout the previous Conservative government and the current, since 2015, Liberal government, no federal government has gotten the direction right. They set reduction targets for carbon; however, with the exception of the 2008 financial crisis when carbon went down and the 2019-20 difference over COVID, without a pandemic or economic collapse no government has gotten the direction right to start bringing emissions down. There are ways to reduce emissions that do not involve carbon pricing. I happen to support carbon pricing. It is a necessary but insufficient condition. What would this member recommend that we do to reduce emissions rapidly?

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Context: House Hansard - 130 - Nov/18/22

Mr. John Brassard

Nov/18/22 1:16:24 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-32

Madam Speaker, maybe there is a reason our emissions are not going down as quickly as we would like. I know that the hon. member, whom I have respect for, is not going to like this. Canada represents a small portion of emissions around the world. I think the solution for Canada is to reduce emissions around the world by supplying clean Canadian energy, which has the best environmental standards, the best labour standards and the best human rights standards in the world, to those emerging democracies and those emerging countries that are carbon intensive. If we want to help, let us help the world.

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