Sure.
Again, I think this is clearly an effort to delay and to distract, to maybe get us into the new year and hopefully just change the channel. It seems as though we, as members of this environment committee, are just a bit of an inconvenience and we'd rather kill time than address some really important things.
The environment commissioner's report was stark. It stated that we are not on target for our emissions reduction goals. While the government may have all sorts of bluster to say that they are on target and they are doing it, I'm going to believe the independent environment commissioner, who has real skin in the game, and not the Liberal Party government. I'm going to go with the objective observer, who said that the government is using “unreliable emissions reduction estimates” and is lacking “transparency on emissions reductions and projections”. It's a pretty damning statement.
We already have two carbon taxes in this country. The plan is to quadruple those, and yet, if that's not enough, Minister Guilbeault has been exposed as trying to get a new global carbon tax on international shipping to drive up the cost of everything even further.
It's like the best effort ever to try to drive Canadians into poverty. They're already doing a very good job of that. We have two million individuals going to food banks each and every month. Clearly, the intention is to just simply make us poor. They're getting there.
That's why I think it's so important that we have a carbon tax election and stop them. We know that Canadians are worse off under the carbon tax. It is clear to anybody and everyone who is paying it. We won't hit the targets—