Question Period – 2024.02.16 – Axe The Carbon Tax
QUESTION PERIOD
February 16, 2024
Mr. Len Webber (Calgary Confederation, CPC): Madam Speaker, on the minister’s response, that was just bloody foolish. She does not understand that if we tax the farmer who grows the food and tax the trucker who ships the food, then we tax the people who buy the food. Already, a typical family of four will have to pay $700 more in groceries in 2024, compared to last year. The carbon tax makes up a quarter of their home heating bills.
The NDP-Liberal government is not fooling anyone any more with its April Fool’s Day tax hike. Can we not all agree that now is not the time for higher taxes? Axe the bloody tax.
Hon. Steven Guilbeault (Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Lib.): Madam Speaker, I would like to remind the colleague opposite that in the ag committee last week, one of Canada’s foremost experts on food policy, Sylvain Charlebois from Dalhousie University said, “we don’t see evidence of that” talking about the impact on carbon pricing on food in Canada. Actually, they invited him to speak at the ag committee. I think we have it here.
The Bank of Canada has said that pricing pollution is not having a material impact on inflation in Canada. It is less than half of 1%. We know that—