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House Hansard - 245

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
November 2, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 245 - Nov/2/23
Hon. Jonathan Wilkinson (Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Lib.)
  • Nov/2/23 2:46:41 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, my hon. friend across the aisle is forgetting some facts. One is that the price on pollution works in such a way that there is a rebate, where 80% of Canadians get more money back. In fact, an Alberta family of four gets $386 per quarter. It is more than what people pay in terms of the price on pollution. The pause for three years for home heating oil is based on the specific issue around the cost associated with home heating. It is done in a manner that is consistent with continuing to fight climate change, which is what a price on pollution is all about.
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Context: House Hansard - 245 - Nov/2/23
Hon. Steven Guilbeault (Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Lib.)
  • Nov/2/23 2:49:43 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, there were $340 million in damages from storms in Ontario, over $720 million from wildfires in B.C., over $300 million from storms in Alberta and the Prairies and over $170 million from flooding in Nova Scotia. This is what climate change has cost Canadians just this summer, and these are insured costs. The total costs are three times that. The climate-denying Conservative Party of Canada wants us to believe that climate change is not costing Canadians anything. It is costing Canadians hundreds of millions of dollars every year.
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Context: House Hansard - 245 - Nov/2/23
Mr. Brad Redekopp
  • Nov/2/23 3:49:40 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, rather than perpetuating falsehoods, in reality, I just want to do a bit of math for the hon. member. The government has said that it is going to give $10,000 to provide heat pumps. I am not sure if it has actually done this math. By my calculations, there are probably 400,000 homes in Atlantic Canada that will need heat pumps, and 400,000 times 10,000 is $4 billion. That is just in Atlantic Canada. There are needs across the country as well. One thing that has not been talked about in this whole proposal by the government is the actual cost of this heat pump subsidy. It is potentially billions of dollars, and nobody has talked about that. I am not sure if they even know that. I just wanted to get that on the record and maybe invite them to do a little bit of homework on that side of the page.
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Context: House Hansard - 245 - Nov/2/23
Mr. Robert Kitchen (Souris—Moose Mountain, CPC)
  • Nov/2/23 4:39:22 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for enlightening the government that, if it does not take the tax money from Canadians' pockets, it will not have to give the money back to them. One of the things the government has never thought about because they do things on the spur of the moment, without thinking about things, is the cost of these free home heating units that will be going out. With basically close to 400,000 homes, just in the Maritimes alone, at $10,000 each, that is $4 billion. Could my colleague quickly comment on where he thinks that money would come from? Who is the government going to tax if it follows through with this?
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