Thank you.
Thank you to the witnesses for joining us today.
I had a conversation last week with somebody who had sent in an email. I gave him a call. He was very shaken. He was actually breaking down in the conversation. He was talking about the challenges that he and others are facing with the cost of living and other challenges. He was talking about the current government and how its policies are impacting everyday Canadians. He challenged me. He said, “Marc, you need to get your voice out there and speak to this, because it's hurting us. These policies are hurting us.”
We can live in our ivory towers, and we get our government paycheques, but everyday people who are relying on jobs, working hard and not just receiving from the government, are struggling.
I'd like to direct this question to Ms. Swift.
The industrial carbon tax is an extra cost. The Liberals have argued with us saying that the carbon tax, among many other things, but let's talk specifically about the industrial carbon tax, does not impact food costs, that it doesn't impact the cost of living. However, people in British Columbia, where I live and where things have been stagnating for the past decade under this Liberal government and under the NDP government, have been struggling. I see that.
Can you make some comments, please, just on this one issue of the industrial carbon tax and its impact on the cost of living and food? Then we can expand a little more.