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House Hansard - 324

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 4, 2024 10:00AM
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Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Jun/4/24 2:22:41 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Parliamentary Budget Officer has already proven that the Liberal carbon tax, just like the Prime Minister, is not worth the cost, saying that the vast majority of people are worse off under a carbon pricing regime than without. This is partly because of the economic cost that the carbon tax imposes. One of our members from Winnipeg asked the PBO whether the government had done an economic analysis of the cost, and he said yes, but that the government is blocking its release, referring to it as a “gag order”. Why the carbon tax cover-up?
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Mr. Jasraj Singh Hallan (Calgary Forest Lawn, CPC)
  • Jun/4/24 3:02:13 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, another gag order victim of the Liberal-NDP Prime Minister has come forward. This time, it is his own Parliamentary Budget Officer, who revealed yesterday that there was a secret government document that would lambaste and completely put to shame the claims on the carbon tax scam. This secret report would confirm most Canadians are worse off in this scam than what they get in phony rebates, and emissions have gone up. Will the Liberal-NDP Prime Minister lift the gag order on the PBO so that Canadians and everyone can know what they already know, which is that the Prime Minister and this carbon tax scam are not worth the cost?
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Mr. Jasraj Singh Hallan (Calgary Forest Lawn, CPC)
  • Jun/4/24 3:03:36 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, maybe the Liberals are gagging the PBO because they are ashamed he is going to reveal that this carbon tax scam is not worth the cost and it will confirm that a majority of Canadians are worse off in this scam than what they get back in phony rebates. If the Liberals do not want to ungag him and they do not want to release the report, why do they not just call a carbon tax election so that Canadians can decide whether they want to keep this scam or axe the tax under a common-sense Conservative government?
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Mr. Philip Lawrence (Northumberland—Peterborough South, CPC)
  • Jun/4/24 3:04:45 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, everybody knows in Canada, except for maybe the NDP-Liberal coalition, that they pay more in the carbon tax than they get back in a rebate. It turns out that even the government knew. Even the Prime Minister knows. We know that because the PBO said that. When will the government finally release this report and end the carbon tax cover-up?
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Mr. Marty Morantz (Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley, CPC)
  • Jun/4/24 3:08:48 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, the Prime Minister is hiding the truth about the carbon tax, that it costs Canadians more than they pay. Yesterday, the Parliamentary Budget Officer confirmed that he had received information from the Liberal government that confirmed his report that Canadians paid more but was under a Liberal gag order from talking about it. Canadians know it costs them more. When will the Prime Minister stop gagging the PBO and release the secret report that proves Canadians are right?
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