SoVote

Decentralized Democracy

House Hansard - 338

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
September 18, 2024 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 338 - Sep/18/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Sep/18/24 2:40:02 p.m.
  • Watch
Mr. Speaker, on April 30, 2014, The New York Times put out “Life in Canada, Home of the World's Most Affluent Middle Class”. Today, almost a decade after the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister has been in what he calls the “big chair”, Canada's GDP per capita is actually down, while the American one is up 19%. His carbon taxes are strangling growth. How could the solution possibly be to quadruple the tax to 61¢ a litre and send more jobs and businesses south?
90 words
  • Hear!
  • Rabble!
  • star_border
Context: House Hansard - 338 - Sep/18/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Sep/18/24 2:41:14 p.m.
  • Watch
Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister does not have a plan for either, as evidenced by the fact that he came completely unglued on a radio station the other day. He started spitting out personal insults and crying “liar, liar, liar” when he learned I had pointed to the government's report. It showed that the carbon tax will blow a $25-billion to $30-billion hole in our GDP. This was from a report the government tabled in the House of Commons. If, in fact, the government is lying about the true cost of the carbon tax to our economy, then what is the true cost?
108 words
  • Hear!
  • Rabble!
  • star_border
Context: House Hansard - 338 - Sep/18/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Sep/18/24 2:42:35 p.m.
  • Watch
Mr. Speaker, someone cannot sit in the big chair if they cannot read their own government documents. Environment and Climate Change Canada's carbon pollution pricing data, tabled in the House by the government, said that it will cost between $25 billion and $30 billion in lost GDP when the tax is implemented. A further document tabled by the environment minister on carbon tax 2 says there will be another $9-billion hole, for a total of between $34 billion and $40 billion. Now he screams that this is all lies. Again, if the government documents are lying, what is the true cost of the carbon tax to our economy?
110 words
  • Hear!
  • Rabble!
  • star_border
Context: House Hansard - 338 - Sep/18/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Sep/18/24 2:45:30 p.m.
  • Watch
Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is not fighting climate change. He is driving production out of Canada to more polluting foreign jurisdictions rather than using our common-sense plan to green-light green projects that produce more energy around the world and displace emissions. That is a common-sense approach. The Prime Minister will still not answer the question on the full cost of his two carbon taxes. I have cited government documents tabled in the House that say that they will total between $34 billion and $40 billion per year in lost GDP and jobs. If his government documents are wrong, then what is the true loss of GDP as a result of his 61¢-a-litre carbon tax?
121 words
  • Hear!
  • Rabble!
  • star_border
Context: House Hansard - 338 - Sep/18/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Sep/18/24 2:52:34 p.m.
  • Watch
Mr. Speaker, our per capita GDP is smaller than it was 10 years ago. It is perhaps the first time since the Great Depression that that has happened. The Prime Minister has had the worst economic growth since the Depression. The OECD says that Canada will have the worst economic growth this year and for the next three decades. Our economy has dropped more per capita since before COVID than any other G7 country. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. The Prime Minister wants to quadruple the carbon tax to 61¢ a litre, which would be an economic catastrophe for this country.
111 words
  • Hear!
  • Rabble!
  • star_border
Context: House Hansard - 338 - Sep/18/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Sep/18/24 2:54:11 p.m.
  • Watch
Mr. Speaker, there the Prime Minister goes again, telling Canadians they have never had it so good. It has never been so good for those two million people lined up at food banks and for the one million people every month who go to food banks in Ontario. There are record-smashing increases in homelessness. By his own admission, after he promised a food program that has not delivered a single meal despite millions spent on bureaucracy, one in four kids lines up at food banks. Now here is the worst: He proposes to quadruple the carbon taxes on heat, housing, fuel and food. How much will that take from our GDP?
112 words
  • Hear!
  • Rabble!
  • star_border