Call to remove the GST on home heating fuel for all Canadians
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Summary
Learn English with the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's carbon tax is being implemented across the country, hitting home heating bills and making it more expensive for Canadians to heat their homes. Justin Trudeau says he wants to pause the tax for some people in some places, but the opposition says he should keep it in place for all Canadians.
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Home heating oil is more expensive, more emitting, more polluting, and is in households that on
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general are lower income and don't have the means to support it. That's why we're putting forward
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a program that is going to give free heat pumps installed right across the country as long as
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the provinces step up and partner with us the way three provinces already have. We know the best way
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to support families is to have them save thousands of dollars a year on heating. That's what they're
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going to be able to do with a heat pump. That's why we're delivering it right across the country
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as provinces step up. The Honourable Leader of the Opposition. So he admits that natural gas is
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cleaner and lower emitting and that's exactly why he's going to penalize Canadians for using it. Mr.
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Speaker, he says he wants to bring in a pause for some people in some places. I want to get
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rid of the tax for all people in all places and forever. Why don't we let Canadians decide? Why
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doesn't the Prime Minister pause the tax across the country until Canadians go to the polls so we can
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have a carbon tax election and Canadians can choose his plan to quadruple the tax or my plan to tax the
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tax. Mr. Speaker, it is amazing to me that after three failed elections in a row by the Conservatives,
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they still want to fight another election on denying climate change, on denying the costs of climate
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change. After the summer we've had, they continue to say no plan against climate change is what's good
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for Canadians, good for our economy, good for businesses. They are wrong and Canadians are
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going to show them that one. The Prime Minister's own cabinet minister already admitted that this
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Liberal government only wants to help people that vote for them. We already have a climate denier
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Conservative leader who pretends to help people. Now we've got an out-of-touch Prime Minister who only
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acts when it's in its own interest. New Democrats have proposed taking the GST off of all home
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heating, a measure that would help all Canadians. When will the Prime Minister stop dividing the
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country and put in place a measure that gives relief to all Canadians?