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Dan Mazier

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • Conservative
  • Dauphin—Swan River—Neepawa
  • Manitoba
  • Voting Attendance: 64%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $138,707.52

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Context: House Hansard - 331 - Jun/13/24
Mr. Dan Mazier
  • Jun/13/24 6:17:22 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague, the chair of the environment committee, for coming out and having this debate today. I am glad the member brought up the environment committee because the other thing is that we are always trying to get to the bottom of this. The Liberals say that they are reducing emissions, so we are simply asking them to prove it. We had asked a very direct question in environment committee. We asked if the government measures the annual amount of emissions that are directly reduced from carbon pricing. Can members guess what the answer was? It was that the government does not measure the annual amount of emissions that are directly reduced by federal carbon pricing. If we do not measure, there is no result. It is pretty simple math.
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Context: House Hansard - 331 - Jun/13/24
Mr. Dan Mazier (Dauphin—Swan River—Neepawa, CPC)
  • Jun/13/24 1:43:25 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I know there was some harassment going on by the NDP, but I came to the member's defence. It was a wonderful speech. There has been a statement made around here all morning about getting facts out, and the Liberals are now claiming they can prove that they have supplied the documents showing that emissions are actually being reduced by the carbon tax. Meanwhile, we have an answer. We asked a direct question of the government, of the environment minister. We asked, “does the government measure the annual amount of emissions that are directly reduced from...carbon pricing”, carbon levy, or whatever they want to call it. “Carbon tax” is what we more affectionately call it. Here is their answer, and I think the Speaker would find this very interesting: “the government does not measure the annual amount of emissions that are directly reduced by federal carbon pricing.” How does the math work? How does the science work? What is the rationale of any Canadian expecting that this carbon tax would have any impact on reducing emissions?
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