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Context: House Hansard - 291 - Mar/19/24

Mr. Marty Morantz (Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley, CPC)

Mar/19/24 1:22:22 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, Dan Kelly from the CFIB has recently said he was horrified to see the government's new plan with respect to rebates for small businesses. Small businesses actually bear most of the burden of the carbon tax but get almost nothing back. In fact, the government promised that they would get more than they are actually getting. Does the member support improving the situation for small businesses or just letting them die on the vine?

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Context: House Hansard - 291 - Mar/19/24

Ms. Laurel Collins (Victoria, NDP)

Mar/19/24 1:26:06 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, the member has spoken a lot about the disinformation that the Conservatives have been spreading, and I agree, but the Conservative member asked him a very fair question about small businesses. We know that the federal government currently owes small businesses and indigenous groups $3.6 billion. Those are rebates that the government has promised small businesses, and they are still waiting. The government has also said it is going to give small businesses less because it has doubled the rebates for rural Canadians. Why would it make small businesses pay for that when we could be making big oil and gas pay for it? The output-based pricing system is unfair. Suncor pays 14 times less than an average Canadian does in carbon pricing. Why not make big oil pay what it owes?

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Context: House Hansard - 291 - Mar/19/24

Mr. Brad Vis (Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon, CPC)

Mar/19/24 3:05:04 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after eight years of the NDP-Liberal government, the Prime Minister is simply not worth the cost. When the carbon tax was announced, small businesses were promised a hefty rebate. The government is now sitting on $2.5 billion in collected revenues while insolvencies skyrocket and businesses suffer under higher taxes and inflation. As the Prime Minister broke his promise on the carbon tax rebate, why will he not simply spike the hike, axe the tax and give small businesses their money back?

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Context: House Hansard - 291 - Mar/19/24

Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Lib.)

Mar/19/24 3:05:30 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the MP who just spoke is a member of Parliament for B.C., and British Columbia is rightly proud of its place as a leader in Canada and the world in having a price on pollution since 2008. It is a provincial system that the people of B.C. support, so either the Conservative Party is ignorant about that or it disrespects the people of B.C. With respect to small businesses, the money will be going back to small businesses very soon.

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Context: House Hansard - 291 - Mar/19/24

Mr. Brad Vis (Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon, CPC)

Mar/19/24 3:06:13 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it is not just small businesses that have been betrayed by the government on the carbon tax. First nations and Métis communities are owed over a billion dollars in promised rebates. In what seems like a sick April Fool's Day joke, remote and rural communities will see the cost of the carbon tax increase by 23% on April 1. This means higher costs to operate schools, band offices and businesses. I will ask again: When will the government spike the hike, axe the tax and give remote, rural, indigenous and Métis communities their money back?

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Context: House Hansard - 291 - Mar/19/24

Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Lib.)

Mar/19/24 3:06:53 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I have a lot of respect for that MP from British Columbia, but I am really disappointed that he seems entirely ignorant of how the price on pollution works in B.C. There is no federal backstop in B.C. There is no federal backstop on B.C. small businesses nor on the people of B.C. B.C. has an exceptional system for pricing pollution, which the province has had in place since 2008. The people of B.C. are proud of it, and they should be.

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Context: House Hansard - 291 - Mar/19/24

Hon. Tim Uppal (Edmonton Mill Woods, CPC)

Mar/19/24 3:12:24 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-5

Mr. Speaker, what the Liberals did was bring in Bill C-5 and Bill C-75, which allow these same criminals to quickly get bail and be out on the streets, sometimes on the same day. As a result, small businesses across the country are not only dealing with higher taxes, like the carbon tax that the Liberals brought forward, but are now having to pay for extra security to protect their businesses and their families from property theft, organized crime, extortion, shootings and arson. This is the new reality for businesses and families in Canada after eight years of the Prime Minister. He is not worth the cost, the corruption or the crime. When will it end?

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Context: House Hansard - 291 - Mar/19/24

Mr. John Brassard

Mar/19/24 4:02:20 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I have a tough time justifying in my own mind how anybody lining up at a food bank is better off than they are providing for their own family. In Barrie, in the month of December, there was a 150% increase in food bank usage. We are seeing two million people a year utilizing food banks in this country. The expectation this year is that there is going to be another million, on top of the two million, who are going to be utilizing food banks. Is that the kind of country we want? Do we want people lining up at food banks, or do we want them producing and trying to provide a secure future for their families? I deal with the PBO. I deal with statistics as well, just as the hon. member does. However, I also deal with those residents and businesses in my riding, which are telling me that the cost of living is way too much because of a combination of a lot of factors. Not the least of these is the increase in the carbon tax on April 1, as well as future increases that are planned, which the government said would not happen. The Liberals said they would not raise it to a certain level, and in fact they are. The cost of everything is going up, including the cost of necessities of life. Given the affordability crisis that exists today, I happen to think it is unfair.

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