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Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
March 5, 2024 09:00AM

Thank you to the member from Brampton. That’s actually a great question. I don’t pay as much current carbon tax as you might think because I heat with wood. So I spend a lot of time chopping wood.

But if we had to—we have voted several times in this House against the federal carbon tax. We, as a party, have never supported the current federal carbon tax. We do believe there should be some kind of pricing regime to—we voted for cap-and-trade, which is actually pretty close to what your government has implemented. Yes, you don’t want to talk about it. You don’t want to talk about it, but we have never been in favour of the carbon tax. At least, I have never voted for the carbon tax, and I’ve been here for a long time.

I distinctly remember: “We’re going to find a way to remove the blue plates.” And now they’ve found a way. They’re just going to wait until they fall off, which is kind of funny, because you would think if you were designing a new plate, you would want one that would last a long, long time. You know, if you’re not happy with the old ones, you’re going to design something—they’re kind of more plastic. I don’t know. They’re much different, so I’m assuming they designed them to last a lot longer, but it doesn’t seem to be the case.

So the new plan is we just wait long enough and they’ll fall apart, and that seems to be kind of emblematic about how a lot of things in this government run: Just wait long enough and it will fall apart.

But I do recall long before I was here that actually—and we’re going to get a lot of complaints from the other side—the Rae government was building a subway and the Harris government came and filled it with concrete, capped it off. So like the greenbelt—get ’er done—wanting to pave it over and then having to back off. Challenging the Constitution—getting ’er done—and having to back away. That’s emblematic of getting ’er done.

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