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44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 29, 2023 11:00AM
  • May/29/23 2:58:39 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, there they go again with that unbelievable guilt trip. The Jacobs brothers from Fogo Island and fishermen like them who take to the ocean in Canada's most dangerous profession are going to be hammered when a carbon tax is placed on the very fuel that they need to feed their families. Will the current government that knows its carbon tax is a failure axe this useless carbon tax and stop trampling on the people of Newfoundland and Labrador?
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  • May/29/23 7:14:09 p.m.
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Madam Chair, the answer, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, is that in P.E.I., it will be $1,500. In Ontario, it will be $1,800, and in Alberta, it will be $2,700. That is just the first carbon tax. We just learned that the government plans to implement a second carbon tax, a so-called clean fuel standard. How much will that tax add to the cost of a litre of gasoline when fully implemented? How much?
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  • May/29/23 7:17:37 p.m.
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Madam Chair, I would like to refresh the Conservative leader's memory because, in the last campaign, his party promised to “improve the Clean Fuel Regulations to reduce carbon emissions from every litre of gasoline (and other liquid fuels) we burn”. Was that something the Conservative leader supported when he was knocking on doors and saying that that was his plan?
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  • May/29/23 7:19:49 p.m.
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Madam Chair, what turns out to be phony is the platform every single Conservative MP ran on in 2021. I just read it out. They promised a path to $170 a tonne. They promised clean fuel regulations. Therefore, if the Conservatives can turn around and disavow that, what—
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  • May/29/23 9:12:44 p.m.
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Mr. Chair, let us talk about the clean fuel regulations, which the member opposite campaigned on in 2021—
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  • May/29/23 9:44:55 p.m.
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Madam Chair, I believe the member opposite is misleading when referring to the clean fuel regulations, which, again, she ran on a platform saying that she would improve the—
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  • May/29/23 9:45:15 p.m.
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Madam Chair, she said she would improve the clean fuel regulations to reduce carbon emissions from every litre of gasoline and other liquid fuels—
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