Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Dr. Charlebois, much has been made at this committee about carbon pricing. With respect to Mr. Currie's intervention on Bill C‑234, I think the provisions of that bill are in line with the exemptions that are already in the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act. You can already see exemptions for farming machinery, farm fuels and farming activity.
You were talking about volatility. The price is set per litre, but of course, we've seen extreme volatility in the price of diesel fuel. I think that, in British Columbia in 2022, some regions were seeing a price of around $2.30 per litre. Now we're at a stage where I think it's around an average of $1.70 per litre, so there's extreme volatility in the price of diesel. That's very important because it's a transport fuel.
I worry, though, that the state of our discourse is doing a disservice to the overall problem, where there's just too much of a focus on carbon pricing. We know that oil and gas companies have certainly seen their bank accounts do very well in recent years, and there's incredible volatility on a fuel source. Is there anything more that you can add on that area of price volatility?
Is the question of the price of fuels something that we need to pay a bit more attention to in a holistic way?