44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 18, 2023 10:00AM
- May/18/23 2:32:18 p.m.
- Watch
Mr. Speaker, the truth is that the Conservatives have absolutely no plan to do anything to fight climate change and will set our country back on making promises toward a cleaner economy.
When it comes time to ask the oil companies to reinvest their record profits in the innovative solution in clean technologies, the Conservatives immediately back down. We are proud to support the clean fuel regulation, which has already contributed more than $2 billion in the last year alone to the Canadian economy.
84 words
- Hear!
- Rabble!
- add
- star_border
- share
- May/18/23 2:33:25 p.m.
- Watch
Mr. Speaker, I am told that orange is the new black. To expand on the benefits to the Canadian economy of the clean fuel standard, let me talk about the Tidewater $342-million plant in British columbia. This year, Imperial Oil—
Some hon. members: Oh, oh!
47 words
- Hear!
- Rabble!
- add
- star_border
- share
- May/18/23 2:34:56 p.m.
- Watch
Mr. Speaker, if the Conservatives are going to oppose the clean fuel regulations, which they supported during the last election campaign, they should explain to Canadian farmers, particularly canola growers in western Canada, why they oppose something that will increase domestic canola demand by over five million metric tonnes and support a strong canola price in our country.
Canadians do not need short-term scare tactics. What they are looking for is long-term affordable solutions to the climate crisis, and that is exactly what we are doing on this side of the House.
94 words
- Hear!
- Rabble!
- add
- star_border
- share
- May/18/23 2:37:43 p.m.
- Watch
Mr. Speaker, that is 17¢ per litre. The new clean fuel regulations are going to cost Quebeckers $436 more per year. That is the second carbon tax that the minister does not seem to want to repeat.
No one believes this minister when he says that it does not cost Quebeckers more and that we are not subject to the carbon tax. When someone goes to the grocery store and pays for goods that were transported across the country, they see that it does cost more. We are not crazy, we see the impact of the carbon tax.
Why is the government now targeting Quebec with a second tax?
111 words
- Hear!
- Rabble!
- add
- star_border
- share
- May/18/23 2:50:57 p.m.
- Watch
Mr. Speaker, when the Conservative Party of Canada, in the 2021 election, campaigned on bringing carbon pricing to $170 a tonne or putting in place clean fuel regulations, were they trying to fool Canadians? Is that what we are to understand?
41 words
- Hear!
- Rabble!
- add
- star_border
- share
- May/18/23 2:51:19 p.m.
- Watch
Mr. Speaker, the finance minister has been dodging questions about her second carbon tax ever since she came back to work. Now, we finally have the answer, thanks to the PBO. This additional 17¢ a litre is even going to be charged on fuel used by our fishermen. For families in Newfoundland and Labrador, it is going to be an extra $850 a year. Combined with her original carbon tax, it is going to be $2,000 per year for those families.
When is the Liberal government going to stop trampling on the people of Newfoundland and Labrador, and axe this useless carbon tax?
105 words
- Hear!
- Rabble!
- add
- star_border
- share
- May/18/23 3:10:48 p.m.
- Watch
Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order.
I believe that there is unanimous consent in the House for me to table the report entitled “A Distributional Analysis of the Clean Fuel Regulations”, which indicates on page 24 that Quebeckers will pay $436 more.
Some hon. members: No.
51 words
- Hear!
- Rabble!
- add
- star_border
- share
- menumenu
- notificationsnotifications
- home
- mailmail
- searchsearch
