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Mr. Greg McLean (Calgary Centre, CPC)

Jun/1/23 10:54:33 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate it every time my colleague gets up to speak in the House of Commons. However, in 2018, an economist from Yale named William Nordhaus came out with his concept of a carbon tax. At that point in time, his concept was for $44 per tonne, far from the $170 per tonne that Canada is moving towards here very quickly. He also said that it had to be efficient, because it is the only mechanism to apply across the economy to make things balanced. With the current government, it has a carbon tax. Now it has a clean fuel standard and clean electricity regulations. There are all kinds of other taxes it is putting on top of this, and the oil industry in Canada is the only industry that pays royalties to the federal government and the provincial governments, mostly. This is a problem. There are significant regulations and additional taxes being layered on that are far in excess of what any academic, economist or financial person has ever seen. Can my colleague square this with me in terms of how he sees a carbon tax actually working?

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Context: House Hansard - 204 - Jun/1/23

Mr. Greg McLean (Calgary Centre, CPC)

Jun/1/23 11:26:35 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, my Bloc colleague said that the Conservative Party is the party of populism. Could he define the word “populism”? A large number of Canadians elected the Conservative Party to represent them in the House of Commons. Now, a second carbon tax is about to be forced on Canadians. Another tax on clean electricity regulation is going to be imposed in July, and yet another tax on electricity is coming later. Among the Government of Canada's many proposals, is there a tax on logging? We now know that trees store carbon and release it into the environment. Would my colleague agree with me on that point?

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Context: House Hansard - 204 - Jun/1/23

Mr. Greg McLean (Calgary Centre, CPC)

Jun/1/23 11:39:44 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, I have a question for the Bloc member. Many organizations see the deforestation happening across the world as the primary cause of the rise in CO₂ in the atmosphere. In 2019, the government said that it was going to plant two billion trees over the next 10 years. It is now 2023, and the government has only planted 60 million trees. This is hardly the way to reach a goal of planting two billion trees in Canada. Is this a success or a win in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions into Canada's atmosphere?

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Context: House Hansard - 204 - Jun/1/23

Mr. Greg McLean (Calgary Centre, CPC)

Jun/1/23 2:10:43 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, “broken” is the only word to describe what happens to everything the current government touches. We are learning of yet another $3-billion loan guarantee required to complete the Trans Mountain expansion so the Liberal government can sell it. It would not have had to buy it if it had not broken the regulatory approval process in the first place. The list just keeps getting bigger, with northern gateway, energy east, Teck frontier, 17 LNG terminals and, just in, Bay du Nord, which are all broken. The cost to complete the TMX has quadrupled in the past decade, to $31 billion. The cause of all of these cost increases is not only inflation and supply chain challenges but also incompetence. I would say to the Prime Minister that he broke it. He bought it, and then he broke it again, so he should get out of the way so the Conservatives can fix it.

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