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Rick Perkins

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • Conservative
  • South Shore—St. Margarets
  • Nova Scotia
  • Voting Attendance: 67%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $136,927.65

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Context: House Hansard - 231 - Oct/6/23
Mr. Rick Perkins
  • Oct/6/23 12:49:30 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we believe pollution should be fought. We believe that that should be through technology, not through taxes that do not work. The carbon tax has had zero impact in this country on the rate of carbon emissions. In fact, every year under the government, except for when it shut the entire economy down during COVID, carbon emissions have gone up. There is such a lack of knowledge about what is going on in the world. If we were at net-zero today, China would make that up in 56 days with its plan on expansion of coal plants, yet the government opposes us getting liquified natural gas to China so that the real emissions, a third of the world's emissions, could be reduced. I would like to ask the members opposite why they hate reducing the coal production of China so much?
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