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{
"time": "2012-10-04 14:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Phil McColeman (Brant, CPC)",
"fr": "M. Phil McColeman (Brant, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2992957\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, when running for his party's leadership in 2011, the NDP leader promised a carbon tax that would go even further than the NDP's 2011 election platform. The NDP leader's plan would apply a carbon tax to all major sources of GHG emissions, not just the 700 largest industrial emitters envisaged in the NDP 2011 election platform.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2992958\" data-originallang=\"en\">In explaining his reason for expanding the scope of the NDP carbon tax, the NDP leader said that Canada \u201ccan no longer afford to focus only on the worst of the worst\u201d. That means even more money taken from Canadian families than the $21 billion the NDP is banking on. The NDP leader opposite can deny it all he wants, but his words are clear. The NDP would hit Canadians with a job-killing carbon tax that would drive up the cost of gas, groceries and electricity.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2992957\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, pendant la course \u00e0 la direction de son parti l'an dernier, le chef du NPD a promis une taxe sur le carbone dont la port\u00e9e d\u00e9passerait ce qui \u00e9tait propos\u00e9 dans le programme \u00e9lectoral de 2011 du NPD. La taxe qu'il pr\u00e9conise s'appliquerait \u00e0 toutes les principales sources d'\u00e9missions de gaz \u00e0 effet de serre, et non seulement aux 700 plus gros \u00e9metteurs industriels, tel que le pr\u00e9voyait le dernier programme \u00e9lectoral du NPD.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2992958\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pour justifier l'\u00e9largissement de la port\u00e9e de la taxe sur le carbone du NPD, le chef n\u00e9o-d\u00e9mocrate a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 que le Canada ne pouvait plus se permettre de cibler uniquement les pires d'entre les pires. Cette mesure va donc co\u00fbter encore plus aux familles canadiennes que les 21 milliards de dollars sur lesquels mise le NPD. Le chef du parti peut le nier tant qu'il le voudra, ses paroles sont \u00e9loquentes. Le NPD veut imposer aux Canadiens une taxe sur le carbone qui nuirait \u00e0 l'emploi et ferait augmenter le prix du carburant, des aliments et de l'\u00e9lectricit\u00e9.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2012/10/4/phil-mccoleman-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/phil-mccoleman/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1121/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "7708605",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements By Members",
"fr": "D\u00e9clarations De D\u00e9put\u00e9s"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada",
"fr": "Le chef du Nouveau Parti d\u00e9mocratique du Canada"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2012/10/4/",
"related": {
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}
}