Thank you, Madame.
Mr. Chair, as you know, last Friday I tabled a notice of motion. I will move it now. It reads as follows:
Given that: (a) the Liberal government is planning to hike taxes on Canadians by increasing their carbon tax by 23% on April 1, 2024; (b) a typical family of four will have to pay $700 more in groceries in 2024; (c) nearly two million Canadians used a food bank in a single month in 2023; (d) Canadians cannot afford further tax hikes; (e) Minister Guilbeault admitted that “the government does not measure the annual amount of emissions that are directly reduced by federal carbon pricing”; (f) Canada now ranks 62 out of 67 countries, dropping four places from the previous year, according to the Climate Change Performance Index; The committee call on the Liberal government to cancel their planned tax hike on April 1, 2024; abandon their plan to quadruple the carbon tax to provide Canadians financial relief on their gas, groceries, and home heating; acknowledge that the carbon tax is not an environmental plan, it’s a tax plan; and that the committee report its opinion to the House.
We know that the economic situation is very difficult for all Canadians. We believe that creating a tax and then quadrupling it as of April 1 is really not a good idea if we want to help Canadians.