Wednesday's question period in Canada's House of Commons continued its heated debate on carbon pricing leading up to April 1, when a proposed hike is scheduled to increase by 23 per cent. During the heated debate, the House Speaker warned Poilievre about using unparliamentary language, after the Opposition leader said the 'prime minister once again demonstrates that he is a fake and he is a phony.
“We just thought a tax on 1.6 per cent of global emissions was inferior policy to a focus on technological investments that could help solve the problem globally.” O’Toole maintained this was “not a tax” because no money collected would go to the federal government, instead being syphoned to individual “carbon savings accounts,” which people could use to make green purchases.“O’Toole before was going to replace it with some sort of an air miles-like program. I couldn’t even just explain it to people when they asked me during that election campaign,” he said.
“We said, ‘Please evaluate all measures, all opportunities, look broadly, look abroad.’ What’s being done that we can adopt and emulate that won’t cost Ontario families that are already burdened, that can’t handle more taxation, but polluters are held accountable,” Crombie said Tuesday.that he wants to revisit the role of the federal carbon price in his province. Kinew cited the fact 95 per cent of Manitoba’s electricity comes from hydro power.
“I think that was an inflection point where Canadians said, ‘Wait a minute.’ If this is really about climate change and really about the environment, then how can you exclude this sort of very heavy-emitting source of energy and not do the same for others across the country?” Wall said.