Minister McKenna, our homes in Pontiac are flooded, our roads are crumbling and our communities are suffering from so many repeated disasters: two floods and a tornado in three years. This is our reality and it is not only in the Pontiac, but also in New Brunswick, elsewhere in Quebec and Ontario. You are fully aware of that. We are already seeing the impact of climate change and we continue to pay the price.
The Conservatives continue to bury their heads in the sand and ignore the reality of the impact of climate change on the lives of Canadians. Unlike the Conservatives, we have a plan. In the Pontiac, we do not have the luxury of claiming that climate change does not exist. Canadians know full well that there is a price to pay, now or in the future. The longer we fail to take action on climate change, the higher the price our children and grandchildren will have to pay. What the Conservatives are doing is unacceptable.
Minister, can you explain to my Pontiac constituents, but also to Canadians, how our climate change plan will improve the situation and how a price on pollution will prevent our children from paying tomorrow for the damage caused today?