Karagianis Debate - Carbon Tax

I'm taking this opportunity to stand and speak to this bill, because as the members on this side of the House know, we are, in fact, being denied the opportunity to debate very many bills in this House in this session. This government has chosen to evoke a closure bill on much of the legislation and has not given us our opportunity for full and fair democratic debate on this — or, in the case of this bill this morning, only the most superficial opportunity to debate. We have a few scant hours. We have many members here who want to stand up and speak out on behalf of their constituents.

I'd like to be on the record to say that I do support the concept of a carbon tax. I believe that it is an important aspect of our fight against climate change, but I also know that it has to be something that is fair and equitable across this province and that we need to start with the top, with the worst polluters, with those who are doing the most damage right now in the province of British Columbia. We have to start there in order to make significant and real change. As long as we are going to expect that this will all be borne on the shoulders of the consumers, I think that it is a failure by this government.

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For a complete transcript of this clip, please visit the Hansard Services Website at: http://www.leg.bc.ca/hansard/8-8.htm

The debate occurred Thursday, May 22, 2008, Morning session.

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News & Politics

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• karagianis;
• carbon
• tax;
• bc
• ndp;
• gas
• biofuel;
• biodiesel;
• climate
• change

[btester1]

Carbon taxes means if you have another child, they breathe CO2, you will pay more taxes.

Such lies, corruption nonsense. Global warming is a fraud.