The Honourable Julie Babrusin

Minister of the Environment, Climate Change and Nature.

MP for Toronto-Danforth

12 March 2026

Ms. Dabusin

From Hansard 11th March 2026

Dave Epp (Chatham-Kent—Leamington, CPC):  

    Mr. Speaker, our farmers and fishermen are being punished with unreliable fertilizer supplies and a rising fuel tax to 17¢ that is driving up the cost of everything. Instead of supporting them, the Liberals have shuttered agricultural research stations and fuelled the G7’s worst food inflation. It is outrageous that while he plays economist, one in five Canadians over 50 is now trapped in poverty, choosing between eating and heating.

    When will the current Liberal Prime Minister accept responsibility for what he can control and scrap the Liberal taxes and policies that are making life unaffordable for Canadians?

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Hon. Julie Dabrusin (Minister of the Environment, Climate Change and Nature, Lib.):  

    Mr. Speaker, let me say it once again. Studies show that the impact of the industrial carbon price on the price of food is zero

Well Ms. Dabrusin, this is not the first time you have said this (as you did again today) along with a gesture that is almost a single finger salute, and I have to ask this:

If indeed as you say this tax has zero impact on food, just where does the impact lie?   It must lie somewhere as even this liberal government pretends that the taxes they charge go somewhere, and it would be interesting to know where you think this particular one goes so that it has zero affect upon food prices.   Maybe a green slush fund?

Over the last decade we have become accustomed to non answers by cabinet ministers, or their underlings, but this bunch of ministers in this “so called new government” under the ex-international banker has really hit the bottom of the pile in believability and honesty.

Lies, inuendo or outright contempt (MacKinnon) for opposition questioners and Canadians is now the norm and frankly I do not believe any Canadians appreciate that, and I think you can collectively do much, much better.