I'll wrap it up.
What I suspect is actually happening here is that the Conservatives are running this cover-up campaign because on the same day, on April 1, Premier Danielle Smith increased the price of gas in Alberta by more than what the carbon price did. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation freaked out about it. Again, that's the Conservative base, so they're upset by that. But the thing about the carbon price going up a little bit is that the Canada carbon rebates do as well. Canadians continue to get more back through the price on pollution as a carbon rebate than they pay at the pumps. That's not true of a 4¢ increase to the price of gas in Alberta.
These four members are not from Alberta, so perhaps they don't necessarily care as much about a non-rebatable increase that's more than the increase that you have just blown out of proportion, talked about ad nauseam, and called a 23% increase. The price on gas increased more in Alberta by that, and you haven't mentioned it once. If it's such an enormous concern, the price of gas affecting our constituents, then why not bring up the fact that it was also increased by Premier Danielle Smith? You haven't mentioned that once.
Mr. Chair, it would be great if we were discussing in this committee how we fight climate—not refuting the facts and evidence from hundreds of Canadian scholars, researchers and economists who do this for a living; not calling into question a Nobel Prize in economics for William Nordhaus, who proved that carbon pricing lowers emissions; and not refuting the very fact that our emissions have dropped in the last eight years by over 8% now, much of that directly attributable to the price on pollution.