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{
    "time": "2022-09-21 18:30:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Kyle Seeback (Dufferin\u2014Caledon, CPC)",
        "fr": "M. Kyle Seeback (Dufferin\u2014Caledon, PCC)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7298422\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, the carbon tax is an absolute failure, and we know that because there are two metrics by which we can measure the carbon tax.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7298423\" data-originallang=\"en\">The first metric is to ask if it reduces emissions. Emissions under the government have gone up every single year. It has not met a single emissions target ever, so the first metric is whether the carbon tax is an effective way to reduce emissions. The answer to that question is absolutely not. But wait, there is a second part. This is like one of those late-night television shows with \u201cBut wait, there's more\u201d. There actually is more.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7298424\" data-originallang=\"en\">The Liberals said that more people will get more money back in their pockets as a result of paying this tax, but they did not. The Parliamentary Budget Officer made that abundantly clear in a report. In fact, when we factor in the effect of the carbon tax throughout the economy, because it does affect the economy, most Canadian families end up paying more in carbon taxes than they get back. This is not baseball, so they do not get three strikes and they are out. This is the real world, so two strikes and they are out. The carbon tax is an absolute and utter failure.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7298425\" data-originallang=\"en\">I swam on the Canadian national team a long time ago, and when we were training, the big thing our coaches always said to us was \u201cno pain, no gain\u201d. It is kind of the mantra. The Liberals tried to get that. They heard about it somewhere, but they got it wrong because the carbon tax is all pain and no gain.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7298426\" data-originallang=\"en\">I had a question for the <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">Prime Minister</a>, and it is even more relevant today than it was in the last session of Parliament. Canadian pocketbooks are running dry. We have an affordability crisis going on in this country. Many Canadian families are a couple of hundred dollars away from not being able to pay their bills at the end of the month, yet the government is going to jack up the price of the failed, miserable carbon tax, making life even more unaffordable for Canadians.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7298427\" data-originallang=\"en\">My question tonight, a reiteration of my question in the last session, is this: Are they going to scrap the carbon tax, or at the very least stop the increase in the carbon tax? By every metric, it is an absolute failure.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7298422\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, la taxe sur le carbone est une mesure compl\u00e8tement inefficace, et nous pouvons le savoir en mesurant son efficacit\u00e9 selon deux crit\u00e8res.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7298423\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le premier crit\u00e8re consiste \u00e0 \u00e9tablir si cette mesure r\u00e9duit les \u00e9missions. Sous le gouvernement en place, les \u00e9missions ont augment\u00e9 chaque ann\u00e9e. Le gouvernement n'a pas atteint une seule de ses cibles de r\u00e9duction des \u00e9missions. Ainsi, lorsqu'on se demande si la taxe sur le carbone est une mesure efficace pour r\u00e9duire les \u00e9missions, la r\u00e9ponse \u00e0 cette question est un non cat\u00e9gorique. Comme on dirait pendant une \u00e9mission de fin de soir\u00e9e: \u00ab Attendez, ce n'est pas tout. \u00bb Il y a effectivement un autre crit\u00e8re.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7298424\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les lib\u00e9raux soutiennent que les gens pourront garder plus d'argent dans leurs poches en payant cette taxe, mais c'est faux. Le directeur parlementaire du budget l'a indiqu\u00e9 on ne peut plus clairement dans un rapport. En effet, quand on tient compte de l'effet de la taxe sur le carbone sur l'ensemble de l'\u00e9conomie, car elle a bel et bien des r\u00e9percussions sur l'\u00e9conomie, on constate que la plupart des familles canadiennes paient davantage qu'elles ne re\u00e7oivent en retour. Ce n'est pas comme au baseball, o\u00f9 on est retir\u00e9 apr\u00e8s trois prises. La r\u00e9alit\u00e9, c'est que ces deux \u00e9checs suffisent \u00e0 d\u00e9montrer que la taxe sur le carbone est compl\u00e8tement inefficace.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7298425\" data-originallang=\"en\">Quand je faisais partie de l'\u00e9quipe canadienne de natation, il y a tr\u00e8s longtemps, les entra\u00eeneurs avaient un grand slogan pendant nos entra\u00eenements: \u00ab no pain, no gain \u00bb, ou \u00ab il faut souffrir pour r\u00e9ussir \u00bb. C'est un mantra, en quelque sorte. Les lib\u00e9raux ont tent\u00e9 de s'en inspirer apr\u00e8s l'avoir entendu quelque part, mais ils ont fait fausse route, puisque la taxe sur le carbone n'offre que de la souffrance, sans r\u00e9ussite.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7298426\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ma question \u00e0 l'intention du <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">premier ministre</a> est encore plus pertinente qu'elle l'\u00e9tait lors de la derni\u00e8re session parlementaire. Le portefeuille des Canadiens est presque vide. Le pays est aux prises avec une crise de l'abordabilit\u00e9. Beaucoup de familles canadiennes sont \u00e0 quelques centaines de dollars de ne plus pouvoir payer leurs factures \u00e0 la fin du mois. Malgr\u00e9 tout cela, le gouvernement va augmenter le prix de la taxe sur le carbone, cette affreuse taxe rat\u00e9e, ce qui rendra la vie encore moins abordable pour les Canadiens.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7298427\" data-originallang=\"en\">Voici la question que je pose ce soir, apr\u00e8s l'avoir pos\u00e9e pendant la derni\u00e8re session: vont-ils \u00e9liminer la taxe sur le carbone, ou \u00e0 tout le moins arr\u00eater de l'augmenter? Peu importe les indicateurs utilis\u00e9s, cette taxe est un \u00e9chec lamentable.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2022/9/21/kyle-seeback-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/kyle-seeback/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4529/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "11807318",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Adjournment Proceedings",
        "fr": "Motion d'ajournement"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Climate Change",
        "fr": "Le changement climatique"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2022/9/21/",
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}