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Member of the panel of chairs for the legislative committees

Hon. Michael Chong

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of the panel of chairs for the legislative committees
  • Conservative
  • Wellington—Halton Hills
  • Ontario
  • Voting Attendance: 65%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $120,269.09

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Context: House Hansard - 118 - Oct/26/22
Hon. Michael Chong (Wellington—Halton Hills, CPC)
  • Oct/26/22 2:39:05 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, $6,739 will be the heat bill facing a typical family using oil heat in rural Ontario and rural Atlantic Canada this coming winter. That is frightening. They have no alternative. There is no natural gas. Electric resistance heating is just as expensive, and heat pumps will not work at -20°C in homes built before the 1980s, whether they are ground source or air source pumps. We asked the government to help them and it refused. In fact, this is the only G7 government that has increased energy taxes while prices are at an all-time high. The government is getting away with it because the NDP is letting it. Canadians cannot afford this costly agreement between the NDP and the Liberal Party, and they certainly cannot afford to pay $6,739 to heat their homes this coming winter.
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Context: House Hansard - 103 - Sep/27/22
Hon. Michael Chong (Wellington—Halton Hills, CPC)
  • Sep/27/22 2:54:22 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the government is completely out of touch. Emissions have risen each and every year that the government has been in power, except for the year of the pandemic, when it shut everything down. A third of Atlantic Canadians heat with oil, as do over a million Ontarians and 10% of Canadian households. When will the government do what other G7 governments have done and provide relief on fuel taxes, cutting the tax on the oil and propane heat that people are so desperate to use this winter?
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Context: House Hansard - 103 - Sep/27/22
Hon. Michael Chong (Wellington—Halton Hills, CPC)
  • Sep/27/22 2:53:09 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the weather is getting cool and people are starting to turn on the heat. Millions of Canadians rely on oil and propane to heat their homes. The costs of those fuels, however, have skyrocketed. It now costs upwards of $5,000, $6,000 or even $7,000 a winter to heat their home. The government has now put on top of that a carbon tax that will cost upwards of $400 to $500 a winter. People are getting desperate. Will the government listen, including to the Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, and cut the tax on oil and propane heat?
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