Mr. Speaker, Canada is facing two huge challenges: a large and growing gap in income and a total failure to reduce C02. The Conservatives have no plans to reduce either C02 or poverty.
There is a simple solution. A carbon dividend, as proposed by the Citizens' Climate Lobby, would price fossil fuels at the source, and CRA would pay those carbon fees straight back to every Canadian family on an equal basis. Energy conservers and low-income Canadians would make money on the carbon dividend.
The Liberals have yet to say how they would price carbon. The NDP is stuck on cumbersome cap and trade, and the Conservatives are stuck on exporting low-value crude at a 30% discount. The Green Party supports a carbon dividend.
I call upon all parties to join together to reduce poverty and dangerous climate change through a carbon fee and dividend.