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Ken Hardie

Member of Parliament
Member of the panel of chairs for the legislative committees
Liberal

Fleetwood—Port Kells
British Columbia
Voting Attendance: 68%
Expenses Last Quarter: $140,090.09

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Context: House Hansard - 321 - May/30/24

Mr. Ken Hardie (Fleetwood—Port Kells, Lib.)

May/30/24 12:51:53 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, my colleague is very articulate and eloquent, but she missed a few points. With the kind of tax cut that Conservatives are talking about, somebody would have to burn almost 1,300 litres of gasoline over the next three months for that to really make sense. There are a couple of other things. We could do without the rebates, which is a consequence of axing the tax, but what a lot of people do not remember is that 40% of the excise taxes collected in Canada go back to municipalities to help them with infrastructure. I know this from my days in metro Vancouver at the transportation authority because we benefited from that. Is that also something she would give up? Would she be prepared, as well, to contemplate somebody doing a “Danielle Smith” or the big oil companies just simply raising their prices to take up the space left when she cuts the tax?

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Context: House Hansard - 207 - Jun/6/23

Mr. Ken Hardie (Fleetwood—Port Kells, Lib.)

Jun/6/23 8:24:28 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-47

Mr. Speaker, I want to repeat a question that I posed a little bit earlier, which was artfully dodged by the respondent. Yes, there is a price on pollution, and it has added to the price of gasoline at the pump. However, in spite of all that, the oil companies have racked up an impressive $38.3 billion in profits, all coming straight out of the pockets of Canadians, straight off their after-tax income. Would the member not agree that if he is talking about inflation, and if we know that food and big oil are the largest contributors to inflation, their profits are really the issue here, not anything that the government has done?

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Context: House Hansard - 108 - Oct/5/22

Mr. Ken Hardie (Fleetwood—Port Kells, Lib.)

Oct/5/22 5:23:50 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-30

Mr. Speaker, it is interesting to hear the recounting of the increase in the price of things the hon. member mentioned. I am wondering if she can reflect on the fact that there have been no tax increases, yet a litre of gasoline out at the coast is $2.40 or more right now. Food is up, but there has been no additional tax on food. However, the big oil companies are producing record profits and the big grocery chains are producing record profits. Maybe she can tell the rest of us who is really responsible for the inflation we are seeing on the two key things that are driving the inflation rate: food and petroleum products.

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Context: House Hansard - 105 - Sep/29/22

Mr. Ken Hardie (Fleetwood—Port Kells, Lib.)

Sep/29/22 1:31:17 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, the member for Chilliwack—Hope comes from a rural area, so he knows what a load of meadow muffins looks like, and that is what he has just delivered. In British Columbia, the revenue from the price on pollution goes to reduce income taxes. We pay the lowest income taxes in the country in British Colombia. There has been no increase in taxes on gasoline, so how does he explain the fact that gas prices are $2.30 and headed for $2.50? I would suggest to the member that British Columbians and Canadians are facing the same situation as western Europe is facing with Russia. The oil companies are gouging us, and the sooner we cut these guys out of the equation, the better for everybody.

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