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House Hansard - 218

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 21, 2023 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 218 - Jun/21/23
Mr. Mike Morrice (Kitchener Centre, GP)
  • Jun/21/23 8:55:37 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, the member spoke about a grift. How is this for a grift? Oil and gas companies, last year alone, raised the price of fuel, on their margins alone, by 18¢ a litre. That helped the five biggest oil and gas companies to create profits of over $38 billion. On top of that, the federal government gave them what the member would call a handout of $22 billion more. How is that not the biggest grift in the country? Is the member going to stand up and say that it is time to get rid of that grift?
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Context: House Hansard - 218 - Jun/21/23
Mr. Blaine Calkins (Red Deer—Lacombe, CPC)
  • Jun/21/23 8:57:33 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, could my valued colleague from Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke just remind Canadians why a carbon tax is a tax on everything, why 61¢ a litre for the cost of fuel is going to make life even more unaffordable? Would she remind them that the policies of the current government are a disaster for inflation and that we need to get back to balanced budgets?
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Context: House Hansard - 218 - Jun/21/23
Mrs. Cheryl Gallant
  • Jun/21/23 8:58:00 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, the cost of fuel impacts the cost of everything. In fact, it takes fuel to manufacture fertilizer. Then they have to use energy to force the fertilizer, spread it across  and ship it to the different farmers. Then it costs money to spread the fertilizer. It costs energy that comes from people's money to plant the crops. It takes energy to harvest the crops, ship the crops to the processors, process the crops into food and ship the food to stores. All this costs energy. When the Liberals drive up the taxes on energy, Canadians starve.
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