QUESTION PERIOD — Environment and Climate Change
Carbon Tax
September 18, 2024
Let’s talk climate change again, leader.
Leader, in less than two years since her appointment, the NDP-Liberal government’s Ambassador for Climate Change has managed to cost taxpayers $254,000 just for her travel expenses. Paris, London, Brazil, Egypt, Switzerland and Indonesia — these are just some of the places where the ambassador has flown the last two years, spewing greenhouse gas emissions while flying business class and staying in luxury hotels, all while this government’s inflationary carbon tax raised the cost of everything for struggling Canadians, except for her.
Leader, this is pure hypocrisy. Isn’t this yet another reason why Canadians deserve and need a carbon tax election?
No, this is not an example of hypocrisy. The government has a serious climate change plan. Again, I try very hard to remain factual and evidence-based, and not to engage in partisan repartee. But it remains the case that there is no credible alternative climate change plan being offered — not this year, not the year before and not the previous years — by the party that you represent so faithfully and loyally.
You say that you are trying to stay factual. Let me give you some facts.
Prime Minister Trudeau lectures Canadians about his carbon tax, yet he flies all over the place. He’s flown over 92,000 kilometres in just the last three months, competing with the climate change ambassador. That’s why I suspect no one in the NDP-Liberal government has told their climate change ambassador to cut her travel spending. Am I right, leader? Yes or no?
No. You are wrong.
