Bill C-396

Stopping the Tax on the Carbon Tax Act

An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act (carbon pollution pricing)

Sponsor

Eric Duncan  Conservative

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Second reading (House), as of June 14, 2024

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Summary

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This enactment amends the Excise Tax Act to eliminate the goods and services tax (GST) in respect of carbon pollution pricing.

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Stopping the Tax on the Carbon Tax ActRoutine Proceedings

June 12th, 2024 / 4 p.m.
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Conservative

Eric Duncan Conservative Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, ON

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-396, an act to amend the Excise Tax Act (carbon pollution pricing).

Madam Speaker, I am pleased to table my private member's bill, the stop taxing the tax act.

A growing majority of Canadians are frustrated with the ever-increasing NDP-Liberal carbon tax, but they are furious to know that, in addition to having to pay the ever-increasing carbon tax, they are forced to pay the GST on top of it. That means there is a tax on a tax.

We know the government has a tax obsession when it taxes a tax. The independent Parliamentary Budget Officer has done the estimation, and $600 million per year right now is being collected from taxing the carbon tax with GST. That revenue will go up to $1 billion per year in the coming years as the NDP and Liberals plan to quadruple the carbon tax from its current rate. That means that between now and the end of March 2031, Canadians will be out-of-pocket $5.7 billion.

After nine years, Canadians are struggling. They cannot afford an ever-increasing carbon tax, and even more than that, they cannot afford to be taxed on that tax when it comes to their gas, groceries and home heating.

I look forward to debating the common-sense Conservative bill that would end the crazy idea of taxing a tax.

(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)