I'll grant you the $78.7 billion, yes, but that's still money that's being taken out of U.S. industry and going into U.S. government coffers.
In fact, when your party was in opposition, the environment critic at the time, Bob Mills, who chaired this committee very honourably for a number of years after your party came to power, said--at a time when our government wanted to bring in some cap and trade regulations--that any regulation to curb greenhouse gas emissions was a tax. He said that quite clearly.
What I'm getting to, I guess, Minister, is that we're hearing persistent rumours that your government will be launching some attack ads against our leader on the issue of environmental taxes. I'm wondering if you agree with that approach, especially given that all the measures that are being contemplated to improve the environment around the world involve some kind of sacrifice on the part of businesses and consumers.