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Mr. Speaker, the documents reveal just how much pain the carbon tax inflicts on Canadians. They will be paying more than $800 million just to administer the carbon tax. Not only have the costs skyrocketed, but the number of bureaucrats just to manage this scam has doubled. Let us put that in perspective. Farmers will pay $1 billion in carbon taxes by 2030, so the Prime Minister is putting the fami…
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With regard to the carbon tax or price on carbon: (a) what were the annual costs to administer the (i) collection of the carbon tax, (ii) rebate program, during the 2023-24 fiscal year; (b) how many employees or full-time equivalents were assigned to work on the (i) collection of the carbon tax, (ii) rebate program, during the 2023-24 fiscal year; and (c) what are the projected costs to administer…
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With regard to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s AgriScience Program Clusters Component, broken down by year for each of the last ten fiscal years: (a) which organizations applied for funding through the program; and (b) how much was (i) requested, (ii) received, by each organization in (a)?
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister said that paying his carbon tax is more important than buying groceries or paying rent. He obviously believes that feeding his obese bureaucracy is more important than Canadians feeding their family. Documents reveal that just to administer the carbon tax will cost Canadians more than $800 million by 2030, an increase of 163%. This is at a time when more than two mi…
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Madam Speaker, I sure can. The University of Dalhousie and the “food professor”, Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, and other universities did a study that measured food inflation that compared Canada and the United States. They found that for wholesale food prices in Canada, food inflation is 36% higher in Canada than it is in the United States. The member can look at the graph that is there; I would be hap…
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Madam Speaker, I have a great deal of respect for my colleague from the NDP, but I have to say I am disappointed in that this discussion is about a level of scandal and taxpayer dollar abuse unlike any we have ever seen before, and he did not ask a question about that. He is asking a question about foreign interference. The Leader of the Opposition and the Leader of the Opposition's chief of staff…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague and the amazing work that he does in his riding, the soup-and-salad bowl of Canada. He brings up an excellent point. Just this week, I had a conversation with a potato farmer from P.E.I. who was in tears over the Liberals destroying his family farm as a result of the carbon tax and decisions that are making farming that much more difficult. I had a conversation …
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Madam Speaker, it is interesting to see what lengths the Liberal Party will go to try to deflect and distract from the scandals that are rotting on their side. The Prime Minister, who was—
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Madam Speaker, it is unfortunate I have to rise to speak to this issue. This could have ended days ago had the Liberal government capitulated and shown the documents. It is obviously very frightened to show Canadians the level of scandal that is in those documents. What we as parliamentarians are now facing is a Parliament, a House of Commons and a government in complete crisis. The lengths that t…
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Madam Speaker, it is good to see the energy from my Manitoba colleague on the Liberal side. However, the Prime Minister was at the foreign interference inquest, and he claimed that he knows the names of members of Parliament, past and present, who wittingly or unwittingly co-operated with foreign entities and foreign jurisdictions. The Prime Minister has the authority to name those members of Parl…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague from the Bloc has a good point. Any legislation tabled by the NDP-Liberal government in its nine years develops a new department, a new level of bureaucracy, a new committee or a new board of directors. That is why we have seen the public service balloon by 50% under the government, and it is clear that, by developing all these new departments and all these new bureaucr…
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Mr. Speaker, I am glad at least one Liberal minister understands Canadians are living in expensive times that their policies caused, but let me help her with her answer. Food insecurity in Canada is up 111%, two million Canadians went to a food bank in a single month and food inflation is a staggering 37% higher in Canada than it is in the United States. The Parliamentary Budget Officer confirmed …
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the NDP-Liberals just are not worth the cost. Today, the HungerCount revealed more than two million Canadians went to a food bank in March, up 6% from the previous year. Food bank use has doubled since 2019 and a third of those relying on food banks are children, meaning millions of Canadian families cannot feed their kids. The NDP-Liberals increased the carbon tax 2…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to give the minister some facts about what Canadian families are facing. Some 35% of Albertan families are skipping meals because of high food costs. Food bank usage in Mississauga is up 60%. Doctors are worried about scurvy because families cannot buy nutritious food. Food inflation in Canada is 37% higher than in the United States. The government's own Parliamentary Bud…
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Mr. Speaker, here are the consequences of the NDP-Liberal plan. A new report shows that 35% of Albertan families are skipping meals because of high food costs, yet the Liberals and NDP tell Canadians that they have never had it so good. I would like to remind the Prime Minister that his own Parliamentary Budget Officer confirmed that Canadians are worse off paying the carbon tax. In fact, when the…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister is trying very hard to get Canadians not to understand the details, but the details and the facts are that the Parliamentary Budget Officer confirmed what Canadians already know: They are being robbed by a carbon tax that is driving up the cost of groceries, gas and everyday essentials. In fact, a family in Prince Edward Island will pay almost $1,200 a year when the NDP-L…
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Madam Speaker, integrity, character and trust are what I ran on in my first election in 2014 and what I have run on in every subsequent election. Nothing means more to me than protecting my integrity and character and ensuring that my constituents in Foothills have their trust in me. I have to question how my Liberal colleagues will go home for the Thanksgiving constituency week and look their con…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister is either living in denial or is purposefully misleading Canadians, because the Parliamentary Budget Office's report is clear: It costs Canadians more to pay the carbon tax than what they get back in rebates. If the minister does not believe me, I would encourage him to read the parliamentary budget report. In the interest of time, let me help out: Page 18 states that Can…
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Mr. Speaker, I have to give my colleague a lot of credit on that, to come up with that argument. They would rather use the cost of this discussion as a way to hide Liberal corruption and scandals. I guess the Liberal coalition has now grown to include the Green Party. I will go home to my constituents this week and say that I am fighting for their rights every day, to ensure accountability for the…
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Mr. Speaker, again, I would encourage the member for Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill to go back to her riding during the Thanksgiving constituency break and explain to her constituents that they do not have the right to see these documents. We are just trying to do this in the right way. If it is such a procedural issue, they should just table the documents. If there is nothing to be concerned abo…
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Mr. Speaker, I think my colleague brings up an excellent point. The fact that $400 million has been funnelled to Liberal insiders and friends and that this would happen at a time when Canadians are struggling through a cost of living crisis is troubling. I have a very rural riding, as my colleague does, and I have talked to the farmers and ranchers of my riding every week. They are paying $150,000…
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Mr. Speaker, I think my colleague puts this in a way that Canadians understand. Sometimes we talk about these big numbers. It is difficult to comprehend, but when we break these numbers down to things that Canadians really understand, they are disgusted by the level of scandal that is in here. I am not sure how many Blue Jays tickets we could have bought for that this year. He is right; this is hu…
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Mr. Speaker, at least some members of my colleague's family are in the right place: They are in Foothills. I appreciate that. To put this as a charter challenge for just asking to have documents made public, documents that are already public that Canadians deserve to see, I find to be such weak sauce from the Liberals. They are so desperately trying to keep these documents under wraps and to keep …
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Mr. Speaker, yes, the sponsorship scandal was absolutely about propaganda. The Liberal Party was using its resources, taxpayer resources, to give itself an advantage at election time. That is why this helped bring down a government. I was also very proud to be part of a Conservative government, under former prime minister Stephen Harper, that brought forward the accountability act. It established …
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Mr. Speaker, I do not think many Canadians find the minister making fun of their struggles much of a joke, because the reality is that for many Canadians, buying a turkey for Thanksgiving is just a dream. The Liberal-NDP government has made the Canadian dream a food bank nightmare. A million Canadians in just Ontario went to a food bank last year, up 25%, and now doctors are raising the alarm on s…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up, grocery prices are up and time is up. A year ago, the Liberals promised to lower food prices by Thanksgiving. All Canadians got were empty promises and empty stomachs. Now they are going to pay $80 for a turkey this Thanksgiving. Food inflation in Canada is 37% higher than in the United States. Food insecur…
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP-Liberals just cannot handle the truth. The truth is that Canadians are being forced to food banks in record numbers. Even the Liberal member for Winnipeg North said that when we attribute the increase in food prices of 34% to the carbon tax, that is absurd. Data from the “food professor” show that the Liberals are wrong. What is absurd is increasing the carbon tax when nine mi…
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP-Liberals are desperately trying to convince Canadians they are better off paying a higher and higher carbon tax. However, the truth hurts. It appears that food inflation is not a global issue; it is an NDP-Liberal issue. According to the “food professor”, because of the carbon tax, wholesale food prices in Canada are up 34% in every single category and are 37% higher than they…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour today to recognize Captain William H. Wilson, a man who has served his country and his community more in his 100 years than any of us could possibly dream of doing in 100 lifetimes. Captain Wilson served with the Royal Canadian Navy on the HMCS Ottawa on D-Day and was honoured with the Atlantic Star for his bravery. The Royal Canadian Navy named him the first honorary …
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Mr. Speaker, here is what their plan is doing. The Liberal-NDP carbon tax is driving up costs on farmers, on truckers, on food manufacturers and prices at the grocery store, and Canadians cannot afford to put food on the table. According to Food Banks Alberta, use is up 73%, and 40% of those are children. Meanwhile, the Liberal-NDP government says that Canadians have never had it so good, while fo…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and, yes, time is up. According to the Liberal-NDP government's own statistics, the number of Canadians suffering with food insecurity is up 111%. That is a quarter of Canadians who do not know where their next meal is coming from. However, there is a solution: Axe the carbon tax and give Canadians the relie…
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Madam Speaker, I find it a little hypocritical that the New Democrats and the Liberals have been challenging us on our support for or alleged talks with grocery lobbyists. The Liberals gave $14 million to Loblaw and Galen Weston for freezers because they were having a tough time with their record profits. The NDP leader's brother is a lobbyist for Metro. They all have their fingers in the pie, but…
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Madam Speaker, I am going to ask a question in English because I want my friend to clearly understand my question. Total net farm income across Canada decreased by about $9.1 billion. In Quebec, the decrease was almost the highest in the country, with net farm income going down more than 43% last year. The reason for that net loss in income for farmers is the much higher input costs on feed, fuel …
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Madam Speaker, the member is saying that is not true. Those are stats from Stats Canada, his own government's data.
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Madam Speaker, I am really having a difficult time. I do not know if my NDP colleague has spoken to his leader, but to save their hide in a Manitoba by-election, they announced that they no longer supported a consumer carbon tax. The member has some indignation over the cost of doing nothing, but his party and his leader have just announced that they are going to do nothing because they understand…
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Madam Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise today to speak to this concurrence debate on a Conservative supplementary report on the variance in food prices. It is interesting to hear my Liberal, NDP and Bloc colleagues not really talking about the impact that the carbon tax and other Liberal-NDP policies are having on Canadian farm families and our supply chain, which in turn, are driving up prices fo…
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate your putting the NDP in its place here. The last policy is the plastics ban the Liberals are putting forward, which we know will drive up the cost of food, especially fresh produce, by 56%. All of these policies are driving up costs for Canadian consumers. Our argument to the Liberal-NDP government is this. It should stop talking about the things it is going to do and a…
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It does not matter if he can afford it; he is going to pass it on to consumers. Madam Speaker, that is a ridiculous argument. What businesses out there, when the government increases taxes on them, say that they are sorry, that they are making too much profit?
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Madam Speaker, I do not know who the member is speaking about, but I certainly campaigned in my riding in the last election on getting rid of the carbon tax, and I know my colleagues did as well. The Liberal member does not like the facts. He is questioning the study by Dalhousie University on the impact the carbon tax is having on food prices. He talked about how amazing the pork industry is in M…
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Madam Speaker, I apologize to the interpreters for that. The Liberals would have the solution if they would just listen to common-sense Conservatives and axe the carbon tax, which is driving up costs for farmers, truckers, manufacturers, food processors and retailers. This drives up the cost of food on the grocery store shelf, which Canadians are struggling every single day to pay for. I appreciat…
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Madam Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberals, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. However, it was the leader of the NDP who was out trick-or-treating a bit early. He was tricking Canadians into thinking he was going to end his Liberal coalition, and his treat was his pension. As a result of that, more and more Canadians are facing the carbon tax, and we have nine million…
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Madam Speaker, the real news is the number of Canadians facing food insecurity is up 111%, that is 25% of Canadian families who cannot afford to put food on the table. Let that sink in. How is that even possible? That is the stark reality Canadians are facing as a result of the Liberal-NDP costly carbon tax driving up costs on farmers, truckers and food production. The Liberal-NDP government has a…
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Madam Speaker, it is often said that the road to hell is paved with the best intentions, and I think the motion brought forward by the Liberals on a national food strategy is very similar to that. What is interesting is that on multiple occasions, the Liberals have tried to address a problem that they, in their policies, have created. Let us go over the timeline. In 2018, the Liberals brought forw…
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Mr. Speaker, yes, we will cut. We will cut the carbon tax. The government's own statistics show that more than nine million Canadians are suffering with food insecurity, struggling to put food on the table. After nine years, the number of Canadians who are facing food insecurity is up a staggering 111%. These are not just statistics, but millions of parents who cannot feed their kids. This is a re…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up, grocery prices are up and time is up. According to Feed Ontario, more than a million people were forced to go to food banks just to feed their family. This is a record-shattering increase of 25%. This stark reality is fuelled by the Liberal-NDP carbon tax, which is driving up grocery prices. Canad…
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With regard to the government's Clean Fuel Regulations and Clean Fuel Standard: what is the projected impact that the regulations and the standard will have on Canada's gross domestic product, broken down by year between now and 2030?
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With regard to projected government spending from now until 2030: (a) broken down by year, how much will be spent through the (i) 2 Billion Trees program, (ii) Nature Smart Climate Solutions Fund, (iii) Agricultural Climate Solutions program; and (b) what is the breakdown of (a)(iii) by program stream?
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Mr. Speaker, there were some very important recommendations in this report about the horticulture sector, but there were some things that were missing. Yesterday I had the opportunity to visit Carleton Mushroom Farms, not far from Ottawa, and it spent $170,000 in carbon tax last year alone. We know that 44% of produce growers are selling at a loss. One recommendation that was removed from this rep…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal-NDP Prime Minister is robbing hard-working Canadians to pay for his out-of-control spending. The level of that thievery was exposed last week when the Liberals were forced to admit that their carbon tax scam robs our economy of $30 billion a year and it picks the pockets of every single Canadian family of $2,000 a year. The environment minister is not worth the economic va…
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP-Liberal carbon tax scam was exposed last week, and it confirms what every hard-working Canadian already knows: It makes life unaffordable. The Liberals' own data, which they desperately tried to hide, shows the Liberal carbon tax scam robs Canadian families of $2,000 a year. This is money that they would put on dance fees, hockey registration or a summer vacation, or just to p…
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